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
If advertisers want to decorate their ads to increase their conversions by showing what users think, that’s a good thing. – Mitch Kapor
The Internet, the network of networks, is growing at an exponential pace. It’s growing so fast, in fact, nobody really knows how many people use the Internet. – 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
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
Often, the disconnect between the marketing hype around a new product and what the product actually does is astounding. – 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
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. – 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
If you look at the history of other movements, whether Civil Rights or environmental rights, these are all decades-long undertakings. – Mitch Kapor
I’d been a great angel investor, but professional venture capital was clearly not the right thing for me. – 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
Human intelligence is a marvelous, subtle, and poorly understood phenomenon. There is no danger of duplicating it anytime soon. – Mitch Kapor
One of the perks of being the founder is that you get to build the company in your image. – 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
Reversing the escalation of health care costs is going to need more than legislation, yet it can be done without imposing rationing, as critics of reform fear. – Mitch Kapor
People are hungry for community. They’re hungry for meaning in a society that is oriented around the production and consumption of consumer goods. – Mitch Kapor
Today, in the Internet gold rush, so many people go into dot-com jobs right from school or even before finishing. Their motivation is understandable, but sometimes they just lack experience. – Mitch Kapor
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
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
I’m like George Lucas, bringing together a creative team that will come up with a unique, well-crafted product. – Mitch Kapor
Computers ought to help people find their own best path through lots of textual information. – Mitch Kapor
Linden Lab’s technological breakthroughs have made ‘Second Life’ a truly revolutionary experience. – Mitch Kapor
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
