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Architecture is politics.
I had no fear of speaking to large audiences.
Beware angel investors: they can be disruptive.
My history is to find the next big thing early.
No, my family is Russian, Georgian, via Ellis Island.
Microsoft represents the best of ourselves or the worst.
Inside every working anarchy, there's an Old Boy Network.
Bulletin boards are sort of the garage bands of cyberspace.
I was not a student of Wall Street, but I was a quick study.
I actually built a tiny computer as a junior high school project.
We have to examine very carefully any privacy-reducing technology.
Wikipedia has a way of compiling compendiums of information on subjects.
'Silicon Valley' has come to mean the Bay Area, not just down the Peninsula.
Lotus's efforts around the Mac were pathetically unsuccessful, which is sad.
If only I'd stayed on the West Coast, I might have made something of myself.
Getting information off the Internet is like taking a drink from a fire hydrant.
I think there is widespread agreement that there is a crisis in public education.
We are living in an era of anxiety produced by computer and communications technology.
Hackers are seen as shadowy figures with superhuman powers that threaten civilization.
You can't be in the tech community... without realizing there's a big shortage of talent.
Open source can propagate to fill all the nooks and crannies that people want it to fill.
One of the perks of being the founder is that you get to build the company in your image.
Jazz was a bomb. That was also the low point of Mac sales. People had just written it off.
The kind of products you envision as an entrepreneur is a function of your life experience.
Computers ought to help people find their own best path through lots of textual information.
I woke up nights, worrying that Lotus was out of control - that no one would know what to do.
The more you eliminate the inefficient use of information, the better it is for productivity.
If information wants to be free, then that's true everywhere, not just in information technology.
Old ways of thinking die hard, particularly when they were weaned by legally enforced monopolies.
Linden Lab's technological breakthroughs have made 'Second Life' a truly revolutionary experience.
There are excellent public interest grounds to have a search engine whose rankings are transparent.
I'd been a great angel investor, but professional venture capital was clearly not the right thing for me.
I soon realized that the best thing I could do for the profession of human services was to get out of it.
I'm like George Lucas, bringing together a creative team that will come up with a unique, well-crafted product.
I don't think Silicon Valley understands the power of Wikipedia, how it works, or the opportunities it represents.
I'd always wanted to live in San Francisco, and my circumstances never permitted it. I'm so happy I made the move.
Failing to continue to support the public higher-ed system in California will have devastating long-term consequences.
Often, the disconnect between the marketing hype around a new product and what the product actually does is astounding.
People in the industry foresee a time in which, for many people, the only thing they'll need on a computer is a browser.
If advertisers want to decorate their ads to increase their conversions by showing what users think, that's a good thing.
Oakland's time is coming. In fact, Oakland's time is already here. Tech is coming to Oakland, and it's terribly exciting.
I routinely failed to understand that 'simple and straightforward' would have been a much better product strategy for Lotus.
Human intelligence is a marvelous, subtle, and poorly understood phenomenon. There is no danger of duplicating it anytime soon.
Everyone has a subconscious and automatic preference of this over that. Once you're aware of that, you can take steps to change.
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.
Both VisiCalc and MultiPlan were available when the IBM PC shipped in October 1981. 1-2-3 didn't hit the market until January 1983.
Velano Vascular has developed a simple, game-changing innovation that will improve the way medicine has been practiced for decades.
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.
If you look at the history of other movements, whether Civil Rights or environmental rights, these are all decades-long undertakings.
If we're not creating an educated and skilled workforce, there is just no conceivable way that were going to be economically competitive.