Mitch Kapor Quotes

“If you look at the history of other movements, whether Civil Rights or environmental rights, these are all decades-long undertakings.”

“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.”

“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.”

“If information wants to be free, then that's true everywhere, not just in information technology.”

“Lotus's efforts around the Mac were pathetically unsuccessful, which is sad.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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?'”

“A typical medical practice is like an old-fashioned business which keeps all of its records on paper. It can probably track down any individual transaction if it needs to, but it's basically helpless when it comes to overall measurements of performance. And that's the big problem.”

“The kind of products you envision as an entrepreneur is a function of your life experience.”