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" Wikipedia has a way of compiling compendiums of information on subjects. "
Mitch Kapor
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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. "
Mitch Kapor
Back
You
Accomplishment
" Linden Lab's technological breakthroughs have made 'Second Life' a truly revolutionary experience. "
Mitch Kapor
Made
Technological
Life
" Velano Vascular has developed a simple, game-changing innovation that will improve the way medicine has been practiced for decades. "
Mitch Kapor
Medicine
Way
Will
" 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
" If you go back to the '50s and '60s... there was zero tech in S.F. It was all in the Valley... and it crept northward in early 2000s. "
Mitch Kapor
Zero
You
Valley
" 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
" If you look at the history of other movements, whether Civil Rights or environmental rights, these are all decades-long undertakings. "
Mitch Kapor
History
You
Look
" 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. "
Mitch Kapor
Experience
Gold
People
" 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
" My history is to find the next big thing early. "
Mitch Kapor
Big
Find
History
" We are living in an era of anxiety produced by computer and communications technology. "
Mitch Kapor
Computer
Anxiety
Living
" I'd always wanted to live in San Francisco, and my circumstances never permitted it. I'm so happy I made the move. "
Mitch Kapor
Live
Circumstances
Move
" 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
Nobody
Internet
Fast
" Physicians today, as human beings, are not exempt from the perverse economic pressures created by fee-for-service regimes to see more patients for shorter appointments and order more tests and procedures. If the incentives were changed to pay to foster better health outcomes, I am convinced physician behavior would change over time. "
Mitch Kapor
Today
See
I Am
" In my case, having knocked around at different jobs helped me get a sense of what the world is actually like and also helped me get out of a cocoon. "
Mitch Kapor
Me
World
Sense
" 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
" 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. "
Mitch Kapor
You
People
New York
" Computers ought to help people find their own best path through lots of textual information. "
Mitch Kapor
Own
Best
Computers
" I don't think Silicon Valley understands the power of Wikipedia, how it works, or the opportunities it represents. "
Mitch Kapor
Opportunities
How
Valley
" 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'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. "
Mitch Kapor
Grow
Small
Successful
" 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
" Even though I had the talent, programming just didn't feel right. I never considered it very seriously. Some people get gratification from bending a machine to their will. I didn't. "
Mitch Kapor
Feel
Talent
People
" 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. "
Mitch Kapor
Feel
People
Professional
" There are excellent public interest grounds to have a search engine whose rankings are transparent. "
Mitch Kapor
Search
Interest
Search Engine
" 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. "
Mitch Kapor
People
Belief
Best
" 'Silicon Valley' has come to mean the Bay Area, not just down the Peninsula. "
Mitch Kapor
Valley
Mean
Just
" If information wants to be free, then that's true everywhere, not just in information technology. "
Mitch Kapor
True
Free
Technology
" I'm like George Lucas, bringing together a creative team that will come up with a unique, well-crafted product. "
Mitch Kapor
Unique
Will
Together
" E-mail is a victim of its own success. "
Mitch Kapor
Own
Victim
E-Mail