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- Nov 07, 2020
There are a lot of similarities between cyberspace and the frontier. It's pretty raw and primitive. I mean, you have to churn your own butter in cyberspace. You can't go down to the 7-Eleven and buy a stick of butter because it's not that well developed.
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I tell people that the history of Mozilla and Firefox is so one of a kind that it should not be used - ever - as an example of what's possible.
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Architecture is politics.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Getting information off the Internet is like taking a drink from a fire hydrant.
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No, my family is Russian, Georgian, via Ellis Island.
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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.
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The culmination of all of that was the decision to start a company, which became Lotus, to do a product, which became 1-2-3. By the time I reached that point it had been four years, and it felt like a lifetime, but really it was kind of evolutionary.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was trying to figure out what to do next, I'd been accumulating ideas for productivity tools - software people could use every day, particularly to help organize their lives.
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- Nov 07, 2020
We've already gotten a significant grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and a university consortium. I think the whole sector of Foundations, potentially with government support, is promising - more than promising, I think, it's substantial.
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- Nov 07, 2020
That's why it has to be a nonprofit, because a nonprofit is required to take monies it receives and use them for the purposes for which it's chartered by the government. It can't be pocketed.
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- Nov 07, 2020
It became clear to me by 1984 that Microsoft was likely going to be the big winner in the PC software apps and operating system category, partly because of the dynamics of owning and controlling the operating system: that gave you enormous power, and I came to see Bill Gates was fierce competitor.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Startups, in some sense, have gotten so easy to start that we are confusing two things. And what we are confusing, often, is, 'How far can you get in your first day of travel?' with, 'How long it is going to take to get up to the top of the mountain?'
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- Nov 07, 2020
Oakland's time is coming. In fact, Oakland's time is already here. Tech is coming to Oakland, and it's terribly exciting.
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had no fear of speaking to large audiences.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Today, in the Internet gold rush, so many people go into dot-com jobs right from school or even before finishing. Their motivation is understandable, but sometimes they just lack experience.
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'd been a great angel investor, but professional venture capital was clearly not the right thing for me.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'd always wanted to live in San Francisco, and my circumstances never permitted it. I'm so happy I made the move.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Beware angel investors: they can be disruptive.
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- Nov 07, 2020
People are hungry for community. They're hungry for meaning in a society that is oriented around the production and consumption of consumer goods.
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- Nov 07, 2020