Mitch Kapor Quotes

Mitch Kapor

Profession : Businessman

Birth : November 1, 1950

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

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

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 ought to help people find their own best path through lots of textual information.

Mitch Kapor

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

I woke up nights, worrying that Lotus was out of control - that no one would know what to do.

Mitch Kapor

Often, the disconnect between the marketing hype around a new product and what the product actually does is astounding.

Mitch Kapor

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

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

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.

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I don't think Silicon Valley understands the power of Wikipedia, how it works, or the opportunities it represents.

Mitch Kapor

One of the perks of being the founder is that you get to build the company in your image.

Mitch Kapor

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

Microsoft represents the best of ourselves or the worst.

Mitch Kapor

'Silicon Valley' has come to mean the Bay Area, not just down the Peninsula.

Mitch Kapor

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

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

Mitch Kapor

The more you eliminate the inefficient use of information, the better it is for productivity.

Mitch Kapor

Old ways of thinking die hard, particularly when they were weaned by legally enforced monopolies.

Mitch Kapor

Hackers are seen as shadowy figures with superhuman powers that threaten civilization.

Mitch Kapor