Top 97 Quotes by Mitch Kapor

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.

StumbleUpon has humanized the Web and mastered a way for people to discover online content by incorporating an individual's personal preferences and recommendations of friends and like-minded people.

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.

I'd always wanted to live in San Francisco, and my circumstances never permitted it. I'm so happy I made the move.

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

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 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.

Old ways of thinking die hard, particularly when they were weaned by legally enforced monopolies.

Today, in the Internet gold rush, so many people go into dot-com jobs right from school or even before finishing. Their motivation is understandable, but sometimes they just lack experience.

I don't think Silicon Valley understands the power of Wikipedia, how it works, or the opportunities it represents.