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" Velano Vascular has developed a simple, game-changing innovation that will improve the way medicine has been practiced for decades. "
Mitch Kapor
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" If we're not creating an educated and skilled workforce, there is just no conceivable way that were going to be economically competitive. "
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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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Interest
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" I actually built a tiny computer as a junior high school project. "
Mitch Kapor
High
Tiny
School
" I think there is widespread agreement that there is a crisis in public education. "
Mitch Kapor
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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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You
Value
" We have a responsibility to give people opportunities to do what they can do. It's a fundamental tenet of democratic society. Libertarians who believe in a completely minimalist state, and don't feel we have that responsibility, are harming humanity. "
Mitch Kapor
People
Responsibility
Society
" No, my family is Russian, Georgian, via Ellis Island. "
Mitch Kapor
Family
Island
Russian
" Successful entrepreneurs develop products that inspire their passion. They have to. It's that passion that gets them through the long, arduous, uncertain and frightening early days of a start-up. "
Mitch Kapor
Days
Early
Passion
" Failing to continue to support the public higher-ed system in California will have devastating long-term consequences. "
Mitch Kapor
Consequences
Support
Will
" I'd been a great angel investor, but professional venture capital was clearly not the right thing for me. "
Mitch Kapor
Professional
Great
Angel
" 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. "
Mitch Kapor
Design
Software
Needs
" The main languages out of which web applications are built - whether it's Perl or Python or PHP or any of the other languages - those are all open source languages. So the infrastructure of the web is open source... the web as we know it is completely dependent on open source. "
Mitch Kapor
Open
Infrastructure
Know
" 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. "
Mitch Kapor
Life
Commitment
Diversity
" 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. "
Mitch Kapor
See
Winner
You
" Wikipedia has a way of compiling compendiums of information on subjects. "
Mitch Kapor
Way
Information
Subjects
" People in the industry foresee a time in which, for many people, the only thing they'll need on a computer is a browser. "
Mitch Kapor
Many
Need
Time
" Before I started a company, I was an employee with a bad attitude. I was always felt like, bosses are stupid, and people weren't well treated. "
Mitch Kapor
Company
Bad
Stupid
" Both VisiCalc and MultiPlan were available when the IBM PC shipped in October 1981. 1-2-3 didn't hit the market until January 1983. "
Mitch Kapor
October
Market
Available
" Beware angel investors: they can be disruptive. "
Mitch Kapor
Angel
Investors
Disruptive
" We are living in an era of anxiety produced by computer and communications technology. "
Mitch Kapor
Computer
Anxiety
Living
" Oakland's time is coming. In fact, Oakland's time is already here. Tech is coming to Oakland, and it's terribly exciting. "
Mitch Kapor
Fact
Coming
Exciting
" When regulations restricting competition are relaxed, nobody's market share is protected. If telephone companies can offer video programming, cable revenue will surely drop. "
Mitch Kapor
Will
Competition
Programming
" Hackers are seen as shadowy figures with superhuman powers that threaten civilization. "
Mitch Kapor
Seen
Hackers
Civilization
" People are hungry for community. They're hungry for meaning in a society that is oriented around the production and consumption of consumer goods. "
Mitch Kapor
Community
Meaning
Society
" 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. "
Mitch Kapor
Creation
World
Personal
" 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. "
Mitch Kapor
Way
Personal
Content
" E-mail is a victim of its own success. "
Mitch Kapor
Own
Victim
E-Mail
" My history is to find the next big thing early. "
Mitch Kapor
Big
Find
History
" I originally invested in Dropcam because I foresaw what the company and their products could do for consumers and the industry. I've been deeply impressed with what they've done in such little time, and I'm confident that they'll continue to exceed my expectations. "
Mitch Kapor
Expectations
Time
Confident
" I don't think Silicon Valley understands the power of Wikipedia, how it works, or the opportunities it represents. "
Mitch Kapor
Opportunities
How
Valley