52 Mitch Kapor Quotes for You to Enjoy

Mitch Kapor

American Businessman

Born: Nov 1, 1950

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

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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

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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

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The culmination of all of that was the decision to start a company, which became Lotus, to do a product, which became 1-2-3. By the time I reached that point it had been four years, and it felt like a lifetime, but really it was kind of evolutionary. Mitch Kapor

I was not a student of Wall Street, but I was a quick study. Mitch Kapor

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Bulletin boards are sort of the garage bands of cyberspace. Mitch Kapor

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I'm fascinated by management and organizations: how organizations get things done and how successful organizations are built and maintained, how they evolve as they grow from start-ups to small companies to medium companies to big companies. Mitch Kapor

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

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

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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

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