Mitch Kapor Quotes

Mitch Kapor

Profession : Businessman

Birth : November 1, 1950

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

Every year we are greeted by a host of new apps that will 'change the way we think' about ordering takeout, 'fundamentally transform' our shoe purchases, or 'revolutionize' the way we edit photos.

Mitch Kapor

Few industries have the ability to transform society like tech, yet too few companies are asking the questions or working on the problems that would create meaningful social change.

Mitch Kapor

Successful entrepreneurs develop products that inspire their passion. They have to. It's that passion that gets them through the long, arduous, uncertain and frightening early days of a start-up.

Mitch Kapor

Life in cyberspace is often conducted in primitive frontier conditions, but it is a life which, at its best, is more egalitarian than elitist and more decentralized than hierarchical. It serves individuals and communities, not mass audiences, and it is extraordinarily multi-faceted in the purposes to which it is put.

Mitch Kapor

When regulations restricting competition are relaxed, nobody's market share is protected. If telephone companies can offer video programming, cable revenue will surely drop.

Mitch Kapor

Jazz was a bomb. That was also the low point of Mac sales. People had just written it off.

Mitch Kapor

I routinely failed to understand that 'simple and straightforward' would have been a much better product strategy for Lotus.

Mitch Kapor

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

Mitch Kapor

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

We have a responsibility to give people opportunities to do what they can do. It's a fundamental tenet of democratic society. Libertarians who believe in a completely minimalist state, and don't feel we have that responsibility, are harming humanity.

Mitch Kapor

It is possible to take a population of students who are failing and whose schools are failing them, who are being written off as not being college material, and if they have the right support, they can all go to college and succeed.

Mitch Kapor

I believe in having an impact in doing things.

Mitch Kapor

I think there is widespread agreement that there is a crisis in public education.

Mitch Kapor

If we're not creating an educated and skilled workforce, there is just no conceivable way that were going to be economically competitive.

Mitch Kapor

We are living in an era of anxiety produced by computer and communications technology.

Mitch Kapor

The computer environment is radically different today. In the 1980s, it was like the Wild West, with a lot of open territory. Now, the cowboys have moved out and the farmers have moved in.

Mitch Kapor