111 Quotes by Mitch Kapor

(the singularity is) intelligent design for the IQ 140 people . . .This proposition that we're heading to this point at which everything is going to be just unimaginably different--it's fundamentally, in my view, driven by a religious impulse. And all the frantic arm-waving can't obscure that fact for me.

Lotus's efforts around the Mac were pathetically unsuccessful, which is sad.

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

It's illegitimate to talk about a post-scarcity Utopia without talking about questions of distribution. There have always been these Utopian predictions - 'electricity too cheap to meter' was the atomic promise of the 1950s.

In an economy where more and more value is in information - is in the bits, not the atoms, where bits can be copied essentially for free - any time you have that situation, economic schemes that rely on existing models of intellectual property laws for protection are going to do less and less well.

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

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

Before I started a company, I was an employee with a bad attitude. I was always felt like, bosses are stupid, and people weren't well treated.

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.