Quotes by Mitch Kapor

About Mitch Kapor:

Mitchell David Kapor is the founder of Lotus Development Corporation and the designer of Lotus 1-2-3. He is also a co-founder of the Electronic Frontier Foundation and was the first chair of the Mozilla Foundation.
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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.

Mitch Kapor

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

Mitch Kapor

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.

Mitch Kapor

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

Mitch Kapor

Microsoft represents the best of ourselves or the worst.

Mitch Kapor

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 ...

Mitch Kapor

I actually built a tiny computer as a junior high school project.

Mitch Kapor

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.

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.

Mitch Kapor

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

Mitch Kapor

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

Mitch Kapor

I'm fascinated by management and organizations: how organizations get things done and how successful organizations are built and maintained, how they evolve as they grow from start-ups to small companies to medium companies to big companies.

Mitch Kapor

The more you eliminate the inefficient use of information, the better it is for productivity.

Mitch Kapor

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

Mitch Kapor

Often, the disconnect between the marketing hype around a new product and what the product actually does is astounding.

Mitch Kapor

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

Beware angel investors: they can be disruptive.

Mitch Kapor

Bulletin boards are sort of the garage bands of cyberspace.

Mitch Kapor

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.

Mitch Kapor

When regulations restricting competition are relaxed, nobody's market share is protected. If telephone companies can offer video programming, cable revenue will surely drop.

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Author Bio

  • NameMitch Kapor
  • DescriptionCo-founder of the Electronic Frontier Foundation
  • BornNovember 1, 1950
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionProgrammer; Blogger
  • AwardsEFF Pioneer Award