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" We are living in an era of anxiety produced by computer and communications technology. "
Mitch Kapor
Computer
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Living
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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's an admirable belief about the virtues of meritocracy - that the best ideas prove the best results. It's a wrong and misguided belief by well-intentioned people. "
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" Technology advances at exponential rates, and human institutions and societies do not. They adapt at much slower rates. Those gaps get wider and wider. "
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" You can't be in the tech community... without realizing there's a big shortage of talent. "
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Without
" 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. "
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" I woke up nights, worrying that Lotus was out of control - that no one would know what to do. "
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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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" 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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" That's why it has to be a nonprofit, because a nonprofit is required to take monies it receives and use them for the purposes for which it's chartered by the government. It can't be pocketed. "
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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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Software
Needs
" 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. "
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Day
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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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World
Personal
" 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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Down
Own
Mean
" 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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Care
More
Health
" Microsoft represents the best of ourselves or the worst. "
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Best
Microsoft
Worst
" My history is to find the next big thing early. "
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" Everyone has a subconscious and automatic preference of this over that. Once you're aware of that, you can take steps to change. "
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Take
" 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. "
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People
Responsibility
Society
" Beware angel investors: they can be disruptive. "
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Angel
Investors
Disruptive
" Linden Lab's technological breakthroughs have made 'Second Life' a truly revolutionary experience. "
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Made
Technological
Life
" 'Silicon Valley' has come to mean the Bay Area, not just down the Peninsula. "
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Just
" Bulletin boards are sort of the garage bands of cyberspace. "
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Boards
Bands
" I'd been a great angel investor, but professional venture capital was clearly not the right thing for me. "
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Great
Angel
" There are excellent public interest grounds to have a search engine whose rankings are transparent. "
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Search
Interest
Search Engine
" I don't think Silicon Valley understands the power of Wikipedia, how it works, or the opportunities it represents. "
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Valley
" Human intelligence is a marvelous, subtle, and poorly understood phenomenon. There is no danger of duplicating it anytime soon. "
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" On a personal note, I was born in Brooklyn. My folks moved out to Long Island when I was quite young, but once a Brooklynite, always a Brooklynite. "
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Young
Born
Brooklyn
" 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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" Hackers are seen as shadowy figures with superhuman powers that threaten civilization. "
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