Quotes from Mitch Kapor

The Internet, the network of networks, is growing at an exponential pace. It's growing so fast, in fact, nobody really knows how many people use the Internet.

One of the perks of being the founder is that you get to build the company in your image.

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

My history is to find the next big thing early.

On a personal note, I was born in Brooklyn. My folks moved out to Long Island when I was quite young, but once a Brooklynite, always a Brooklynite.

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.

I was not a student of Wall Street, but I was a quick study.

We have to examine very carefully any privacy-reducing technology.

Computers ought to help people find their own best path through lots of textual information.

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

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.'

The main languages out of which web applications are built - whether it's Perl or Python or PHP or any of the other languages - those are all open source languages. So the infrastructure of the web is open source... the web as we know it is completely dependent on open source.

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.

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.

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.

If only I'd stayed on the West Coast, I might have made something of myself.

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

We are living in an era of anxiety produced by computer and communications technology.

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

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

Failing to continue to support the public higher-ed system in California will have devastating long-term consequences.

You can't be in the tech community... without realizing there's a big shortage of talent.

Linden Lab's technological breakthroughs have made 'Second Life' a truly revolutionary experience.

Getting information off the Internet is like taking a drink from a fire hydrant.