Mitch Kapor

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

No, my family is Russian, Georgian, via Ellis Island.

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.

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.

Every year we are greeted by a host of new apps that will 'change the way we think' about ordering takeout, 'fundamentally transform' our shoe purchases, or 'revolutionize' the way we edit photos.

If you can command a lot of attention, that's what is valuable, and many in the commercial ecology would like to have a piece of that attention.

Everyone has a subconscious and automatic preference of this over that. Once you're aware of that, you can take steps to change.

I think there is widespread agreement that there is a crisis in public education.

I soon realized that the best thing I could do for the profession of human services was to get out of it.

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.

People in the industry foresee a time in which, for many people, the only thing they'll need on a computer is a browser.

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.