A biography for Mitch Kaporhasn’t been written yet.
“Lotus's efforts around the Mac were pathetically unsuccessful, which is sad.”
“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.”
“I'd always wanted to live in San Francisco, and my circumstances never permitted it. I'm so happy I made the move.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“We have to examine very carefully any privacy-reducing technology.”
“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.”
“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.”
“Computers ought to help people find their own best path through lots of textual information.”
“My history is to find the next big thing early.”
“Velano Vascular has developed a simple, game-changing innovation that will improve the way medicine has been practiced for decades.”
“The kind of products you envision as an entrepreneur is a function of your life experience.”
“I believe in having an impact in doing things.”
“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.”
“Even though I had the talent, programming just didn't feel right. I never considered it very seriously. Some people get gratification from bending a machine to their will. I didn't.”
“The main languages out of which web applications are built - whether it's Perl or Python or PHP or any of the other languages - those are all open source languages. So the infrastructure of the web is open source... the web as we know it is completely dependent on open source.”
“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.”
“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.”
“Linden Lab's technological breakthroughs have made 'Second Life' a truly revolutionary experience.”