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Well, I had a lot of help from my father with the soldering and so on, and he was very good at math and was fascinated with computers, and so I was fortunate enough to have a bunch of exposure going all the way back to high school - this was in the 1960s.
- Mitch Kapor
#Computers
#Father
#Good
#School
#Way
Open source can propagate to fill all the nooks and crannies that people want it to fill.
- Mitch Kapor
#Open Source
#Open
#People
#Source
#Want
Beware angel investors: they can be disruptive.
- Mitch Kapor
#Angel
#Beware
#Disruptive
#Investors
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.
- Mitch Kapor
#Atoms
#Free
#Information
#Time
#Value
Human intelligence is a marvelous, subtle, and poorly understood phenomenon. There is no danger of duplicating it anytime soon.
- Mitch Kapor
#Danger
#Human
#Intelligence
#Understood
If you look at the history of other movements, whether Civil Rights or environmental rights, these are all decades-long undertakings.
- Mitch Kapor
#Environmental
#History
#Look
#Rights
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.
- Mitch Kapor
#Business
#Computers
#View
#Vision
#Work
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
#Computers
#Feel
#People
#Professional
Computers ought to help people find their own best path through lots of textual information.
- Mitch Kapor
#Best
#Computers
#Find
#Information
#Path
Lotus's efforts around the Mac were pathetically unsuccessful, which is sad.
- Mitch Kapor
#Efforts
#Mac
#Sad
#Unsuccessful
#Which
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.
- Mitch Kapor
#Create
#Down
#Paper
#Things
#Way
The more you eliminate the inefficient use of information, the better it is for productivity.
- Mitch Kapor
#Better
#Information
#More
#Productivity
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
#Fierce
#Me
#Power
#Software
#Winner
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
#Never
#People
#Talent
#Will
I've been around long enough to know that empires come and empires go, and I can't tell how long the Google empire is going to last - but I'm pretty convinced that the answer is less than forever.
- Mitch Kapor
#Forever
#Go
#Google
#Know
#Long
I'd been a great angel investor, but professional venture capital was clearly not the right thing for me.
- Mitch Kapor
#Angel
#Great
#Me
#Right
#The Right Thing
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
#Accomplishment
#Back
#End
#See
#Web
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.
- Mitch Kapor
#Expectations
#Money
#New
#Technology
Wikipedia has a way of compiling compendiums of information on subjects.
- Mitch Kapor
#Information
#Subjects
#Way
#Wikipedia
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
#Commitment
#Community
#Diversity
#Life
It's illegitimate to talk about a post-scarcity Utopia without talking about questions of distribution. There have always been these Utopian predictions - 'electricity too cheap to meter' was the atomic promise of the 1950s.
- Mitch Kapor
#Cheap
#Electricity
#Questions
#Talk
We are living in an era of anxiety produced by computer and communications technology.
- Mitch Kapor
#Anxiety
#Era
#Living
#Technology
Architecture is politics.
- Mitch Kapor
#Architecture
#Politics
If information wants to be free, then that's true everywhere, not just in information technology.
- Mitch Kapor
#Free
#Information
#Technology
#True
Technology advances at exponential rates, and human institutions and societies do not. They adapt at much slower rates. Those gaps get wider and wider.
- Mitch Kapor
#Adapt
#Human
#Institutions
#Technology
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
#Attitude
#Bad
#Company
#People
#Stupid
Hackers are seen as shadowy figures with superhuman powers that threaten civilization.
- Mitch Kapor
#Civilization
#Hackers
#Seen
#Superhuman
Inside every working anarchy, there's an Old Boy Network.
- Mitch Kapor
#Anarchy
#Boy
#Business
#Every
#Inside
#Old
Getting information off the Internet is like taking a drink from a fire hydrant.
- Mitch Kapor
#Fire
#Information
#Internet
#Technology
What is design? It's where you stand with a foot in two worlds - the world of technology and the world of people and human purposes - and you try to bring the two together.
- Mitch Kapor
#Design
#Technology
#Together
#Try
#World
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