Mitch Kapor quotes

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

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

Mitch Kapor

Architecture is politics.

Mitch Kapor

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.

Mitch Kapor

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

Mitch Kapor

In an economy where more and more value is in information - is in the bits, not the atoms, where bits can be copied essentially for free - any time you have that situation, economic schemes that rely on existing models of intellectual property laws for protection are going to do less and less well.

Mitch Kapor

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.

Mitch Kapor

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

Mitch Kapor

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

Mitch Kapor

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.

Mitch Kapor

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. (Mitch Kapor)

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.

Mitch Kapor

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

Mitch Kapor

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.

Mitch Kapor