Mitch Kapor Quotes & Sayings

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

“Wikipedia has a way of compiling compendiums of information on subjects.”

“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.”

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

“I actually built a tiny computer as a junior high school project.”

“Hackers are seen as shadowy figures with superhuman powers that threaten civilization.”

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

“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.”

“Open source can propagate to fill all the nooks and crannies that people want it to fill.”

“People are hungry for community. They're hungry for meaning in a society that is oriented around the production and consumption of consumer goods.”