Mitch Kapor

Human intelligence is a marvelous, subtle, and poorly understood phenomenon. There is no danger of duplicating it anytime soon.

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.

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

I believe in having an impact in doing things.

Velano Vascular has developed a simple, game-changing innovation that will improve the way medicine has been practiced for decades.

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.

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

If you look at the history of other movements, whether Civil Rights or environmental rights, these are all decades-long undertakings.

Well, I had a lot of help from my father with the soldering and so on, and he was very good at math and was fascinated with computers, and so I was fortunate enough to have a bunch of exposure going all the way back to high school - this was in the 1960s.

If you go back to the '50s and '60s... there was zero tech in S.F. It was all in the Valley... and it crept northward in early 2000s.

There are excellent public interest grounds to have a search engine whose rankings are transparent.

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.