When new technology in the classroom starts happening, some people get very excited and think of it as a panacea. It attracts very high amounts of money; it raises expectations, and those expectations aren’t met. Mitch Kapor Read Quote
I’m like George Lucas, bringing together a creative team that will come up with a unique, well-crafted product. Mitch Kapor Read Quote
If information wants to be free, then that’s true everywhere, not just in information technology. Mitch Kapor Read Quote
Often, the disconnect between the marketing hype around a new product and what the product actually does is astounding. Mitch Kapor Read Quote
Every year we are greeted by a host of new apps that will ‘change the way we think’ about ordering takeout, ‘fundamentally transform’ our shoe purchases, or ‘revolutionize’ the way we edit photos. Mitch Kapor Read Quote
Few industries have the ability to transform society like tech, yet too few companies are asking the questions or working on the problems that would create meaningful social change. Mitch Kapor Read Quote
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. Mitch Kapor Read Quote
Life in cyberspace is often conducted in primitive frontier conditions, but it is a life which, at its best, is more egalitarian than elitist and more decentralized than hierarchical. It serves individuals and communities, not mass audiences, and it is extraordinarily multi-faceted in the purposes to which it is put. Mitch Kapor Read Quote
Life in cyberspace seems to be shaping up exactly like Thomas Jefferson would have wanted: founded on the primacy of individual liberty and a commitment to pluralism, diversity, and community. Mitch Kapor Read Quote
