A biography for Mitch Kaporhasn’t been written yet.
“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.”
“'Silicon Valley' has come to mean the Bay Area, not just down the Peninsula.”
“If only I'd stayed on the West Coast, I might have made something of myself.”
“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.”
“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.”
“The more you eliminate the inefficient use of information, the better it is for productivity.”
“People in the industry foresee a time in which, for many people, the only thing they'll need on a computer is a browser.”
“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.'”
“Technology advances at exponential rates, and human institutions and societies do not. They adapt at much slower rates. Those gaps get wider and wider.”
“I'd been a great angel investor, but professional venture capital was clearly not the right thing for me.”
“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.”
“What is design? It's where you stand with a foot in two worlds - the world of technology and the world of people and human purposes - and you try to bring the two together.”
“E-mail is a victim of its own success.”
“I was not a student of Wall Street, but I was a quick study.”
“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.”
“I actually built a tiny computer as a junior high school project.”
“Hackers are seen as shadowy figures with superhuman powers that threaten civilization.”
“No, my family is Russian, Georgian, via Ellis Island.”
“In my case, having knocked around at different jobs helped me get a sense of what the world is actually like and also helped me get out of a cocoon.”
“Bulletin boards are sort of the garage bands of cyberspace.”