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" There are excellent public interest grounds to have a search engine whose rankings are transparent. "
Mitch Kapor
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" For people who know both New York and the Bay Area, it is a complement to say that Oakland is San Francisco's Brooklyn. It's a complement both to Oakland and to Brooklyn. And, if you look at Brooklyn, Brooklyn is hot; Brooklyn is cool. "
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" It is possible to take a population of students who are failing and whose schools are failing them, who are being written off as not being college material, and if they have the right support, they can all go to college and succeed. "
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" I had no fear of speaking to large audiences. "
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" People in the industry foresee a time in which, for many people, the only thing they'll need on a computer is a browser. "
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" I believe in having an impact in doing things. "
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" Wikipedia has a way of compiling compendiums of information on subjects. "
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" The culmination of all of that was the decision to start a company, which became Lotus, to do a product, which became 1-2-3. By the time I reached that point it had been four years, and it felt like a lifetime, but really it was kind of evolutionary. "
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" Old ways of thinking die hard, particularly when they were weaned by legally enforced monopolies. "
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" The widespread adoption of broadband and the continued advances in personal computing technology are finally making it possible for the collective creation of an online world on a realistic scale. "
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" Failing to continue to support the public higher-ed system in California will have devastating long-term consequences. "
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" Startups, in some sense, have gotten so easy to start that we are confusing two things. And what we are confusing, often, is, 'How far can you get in your first day of travel?' with, 'How long it is going to take to get up to the top of the mountain?' "
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" Oakland's time is coming. In fact, Oakland's time is already here. Tech is coming to Oakland, and it's terribly exciting. "
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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. "
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" I don't think Silicon Valley understands the power of Wikipedia, how it works, or the opportunities it represents. "
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Valley
" 'Silicon Valley' has come to mean the Bay Area, not just down the Peninsula. "
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" 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. "
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You
Accomplishment
" Often, the disconnect between the marketing hype around a new product and what the product actually does is astounding. "
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" When new technology in the classroom starts happening, some people get very excited and think of it as a panacea. It attracts very high amounts of money; it raises expectations, and those expectations aren't met. "
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" Velano Vascular has developed a simple, game-changing innovation that will improve the way medicine has been practiced for decades. "
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" There are a lot of similarities between cyberspace and the frontier. It's pretty raw and primitive. I mean, you have to churn your own butter in cyberspace. You can't go down to the 7-Eleven and buy a stick of butter because it's not that well developed. "
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" Linden Lab's technological breakthroughs have made 'Second Life' a truly revolutionary experience. "
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" 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. "
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Needs
" If you look at the history of other movements, whether Civil Rights or environmental rights, these are all decades-long undertakings. "
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" Today, in the Internet gold rush, so many people go into dot-com jobs right from school or even before finishing. Their motivation is understandable, but sometimes they just lack experience. "
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" I actually built a tiny computer as a junior high school project. "
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High
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" If you can command a lot of attention, that's what is valuable, and many in the commercial ecology would like to have a piece of that attention. "
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" I'm fascinated by management and organizations: how organizations get things done and how successful organizations are built and maintained, how they evolve as they grow from start-ups to small companies to medium companies to big companies. "
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" I'm like George Lucas, bringing together a creative team that will come up with a unique, well-crafted product. "
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" 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. "
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Information
You
Value
" It became clear to me by 1984 that Microsoft was likely going to be the big winner in the PC software apps and operating system category, partly because of the dynamics of owning and controlling the operating system: that gave you enormous power, and I came to see Bill Gates was fierce competitor. "
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