Mitch Kapor Quotes

Inside every working anarchy, there's an Old Boy N... -Mitch Kapor

Inside every working anarchy, there's an Old Boy Network.

If information wants to be free, then that's true ... -Mitch Kapor

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

Getting information off the Internet is like takin... -Mitch Kapor

Getting information off the Internet is like taking a drink from a fire hydrant.

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This quote humorously illustrates the overwhelming abundance of information available on the Internet, comparing it to the forceful flow of water from a fire hydrant. It implies a humorous view of information overload online. It reflects on the challenges of information filtering on the Internet.

Well, I had a lot of help from my father with the soldering and so on, and he was very good at math and was fascinated with computers, and so I was fortunate enough to have a bunch of exposure going all the way back to high school - this was in the 1960s.

A typical medical practice is like an old-fashioned business which keeps all of its records on paper. It can probably track down any individual transaction if it needs to, but it's basically helpless when it comes to overall measurements of performance. And that's the big problem.

What is design? It's where you stand with a foot in two worlds - the world of technology and the world of people and human purposes - and you try to bring the two together.

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.

Architecture is politics.

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This quote asserts that architecture is inherently intertwined with political and societal considerations. It implies that architectural choices can have political implications and that the design and use of space can reflect or reinforce political ideologies and power structures.

Computers ought to help people find their own best... -Mitch Kapor

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

If you look at the history of other movements, whether Civil Rights or environmental rights, these are all decades-long undertakings.

I give Bill Gates an A for vision because, as a business person and a strategist, he's brilliant. His flaw is that his view is not informed by a humanistic or compassionate vision of how to make computers work for people.

Managerial and professional people hadn't really used computers, hadn't sat down at keyboards, until personal computers. Personal computers have a totally different feel.

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