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Mitch Kapor

For people who know both New York and the Bay Area, it is a complement to say that Oakland is San Francisco’s Brooklyn. It’s a complement both to Oakland and to Brooklyn. And, if you look at Brooklyn, Brooklyn is hot; Brooklyn is cool.

– Mitch Kapor

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

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

Mitch Kapor

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.

– Mitch Kapor

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

Mitch Kapor

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

– Mitch Kapor

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

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

Mitch Kapor

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

– Mitch Kapor

Mitch Kapor

I don’t think Silicon Valley understands the power of Wikipedia, how it works, or the opportunities it represents.

– Mitch Kapor

Mitch Kapor

The main languages out of which web applications are built – whether it’s Perl or Python or PHP or any of the other languages – those are all open source languages. So the infrastructure of the web is open source… the web as we know it is completely dependent on open source.

– Mitch Kapor

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

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