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

Mitch Kapor

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

Mitch Kapor

I routinely failed to understand that 'simple and straightforward' would have been a much better product strategy for Lotus.

Mitch Kapor

It is possible to take a population of students who are failing and whose schools are failing them, who are being written off as not being college material, and if they have the right support, they can all go to college and succeed.

Mitch Kapor

I believe in having an impact in doing things.

Mitch Kapor

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.

Mitch Kapor

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

Mitch Kapor

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

Mitch Kapor

If you can command a lot of attention, that's what is valuable, and many in the commercial ecology would like to have a piece of that attention.

Mitch Kapor

I woke up nights, worrying that Lotus was out of control - that no one would know what to do.

Mitch Kapor

I'm like George Lucas, bringing together a creative team that will come up with a unique, well-crafted product.

Mitch Kapor

If we're not creating an educated and skilled workforce, there is just no conceivable way that were going to be economically competitive.

Mitch Kapor

In my case, having knocked around at different jobs helped me get a sense of what the world is actually like and also helped me get out of a cocoon.

Mitch Kapor

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.

Mitch Kapor

Old ways of thinking die hard, particularly when they were weaned by legally enforced monopolies.

Mitch Kapor

Jazz was a bomb. That was also the low point of Mac sales. People had just written it off.

Mitch Kapor

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.

Mitch Kapor

Even though I had the talent, programming just didn't feel right. I never considered it very seriously. Some people get gratification from bending a machine to their will. I didn't.

Mitch Kapor

'Silicon Valley' has come to mean the Bay Area, not just down the Peninsula.

Mitch Kapor

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

Mitch Kapor

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

Mitch Kapor

Author Bio

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