Mitch Kapor Quotes

Mitch Kapor

Profession : Businessman

Birth : November 1, 1950

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

There's a great deal of suspicion and misunderstanding about IT among practicing doctors. One hears things like, 'I don't want to be turned into a data entry clerk, and I don't want some machine between me and my patients.'

Mitch Kapor

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

Linden Lab's technological breakthroughs have made 'Second Life' a truly revolutionary experience.

Mitch Kapor

People in the industry foresee a time in which, for many people, the only thing they'll need on a computer is a browser.

Mitch Kapor

Velano Vascular has developed a simple, game-changing innovation that will improve the way medicine has been practiced for decades.

Mitch Kapor

E-mail is a victim of its own success.

Mitch Kapor

You can't be in the tech community... without realizing there's a big shortage of talent.

Mitch Kapor

StumbleUpon has humanized the Web and mastered a way for people to discover online content by incorporating an individual's personal preferences and recommendations of friends and like-minded people.

Mitch Kapor

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

Diversifying our tech talent pool is an imperative for the tech sector. More diverse engineers and entrepreneurs will bring about a new type of innovation that Silicon Valley has yet to see.

Mitch Kapor

Failing to continue to support the public higher-ed system in California will have devastating long-term consequences.

Mitch Kapor

Fundly is at the dynamic intersection of high-growth technology startups, social entrepreneurship, and the exploding world of social media. Kapor Capital is proud to back this passionate team, their product, and Fundly's impressive customer base.

Mitch Kapor

There are excellent public interest grounds to have a search engine whose rankings are transparent.

Mitch Kapor

We have to examine very carefully any privacy-reducing technology.

Mitch Kapor

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

I'm like George Lucas, bringing together a creative team that will come up with a unique, well-crafted product.

Mitch Kapor

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

Mitch Kapor

Open source can propagate to fill all the nooks and crannies that people want it to fill.

Mitch Kapor

Human intelligence is a marvelous, subtle, and poorly understood phenomenon. There is no danger of duplicating it anytime soon.

Mitch Kapor