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" The Internet, the network of networks, is growing at an exponential pace. It's growing so fast, in fact, nobody really knows how many people use the Internet. "

Mitch Kapor

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" I give Bill Gates an A for vision because, as a business person and a strategist, he's brilliant. His flaw is that his view is not informed by a humanistic or compassionate vision of how to make computers work for people. "

" In an economy where more and more value is in information - is in the bits, not the atoms, where bits can be copied essentially for free - any time you have that situation, economic schemes that rely on existing models of intellectual property laws for protection are going to do less and less well. "

" E-mail is a victim of its own success. "

" If we're not creating an educated and skilled workforce, there is just no conceivable way that were going to be economically competitive. "

" I'd been a great angel investor, but professional venture capital was clearly not the right thing for me. "

" If you look at the history of other movements, whether Civil Rights or environmental rights, these are all decades-long undertakings. "

" I had no fear of speaking to large audiences. "

" Lotus's efforts around the Mac were pathetically unsuccessful, which is sad. "

" I woke up nights, worrying that Lotus was out of control - that no one would know what to do. "

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" I believe in having an impact in doing things. "

" The accomplishment of open source is that it is the back end of the web, the invisible part, the part that you don't see as a user. "

" I was trying to figure out what to do next, I'd been accumulating ideas for productivity tools - software people could use every day, particularly to help organize their lives. "

" If only I'd stayed on the West Coast, I might have made something of myself. "

" StumbleUpon has humanized the Web and mastered a way for people to discover online content by incorporating an individual's personal preferences and recommendations of friends and like-minded people. "

" A typical medical practice is like an old-fashioned business which keeps all of its records on paper. It can probably track down any individual transaction if it needs to, but it's basically helpless when it comes to overall measurements of performance. And that's the big problem. "

" Computers ought to help people find their own best path through lots of textual information. "

" Bulletin boards are sort of the garage bands of cyberspace. "

" I don't think Silicon Valley understands the power of Wikipedia, how it works, or the opportunities it represents. "

" Everyone has a subconscious and automatic preference of this over that. Once you're aware of that, you can take steps to change. "

" People in the industry foresee a time in which, for many people, the only thing they'll need on a computer is a browser. "

" Beware angel investors: they can be disruptive. "

" The critical thing in developing software is not the program, it's the design. It is translating understanding of user needs into something that can be realized as a computer program. "

" I'm an inveterate note taker - I scribble all these things down on pieces of paper. I wanted to create some way of organizing all of them. "

" Managerial and professional people hadn't really used computers, hadn't sat down at keyboards, until personal computers. Personal computers have a totally different feel. "

" Reversing the escalation of health care costs is going to need more than legislation, yet it can be done without imposing rationing, as critics of reform fear. "

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" Jazz was a bomb. That was also the low point of Mac sales. People had just written it off. "

" Life in cyberspace seems to be shaping up exactly like Thomas Jefferson would have wanted: founded on the primacy of individual liberty and a commitment to pluralism, diversity, and community. "

" The computer environment is radically different today. In the 1980s, it was like the Wild West, with a lot of open territory. Now, the cowboys have moved out and the farmers have moved in. "