Mitchell Kapor Quotes

#1. This is the snobbery of the people on the Mayflower looking down their noses at the people who came over ON THE SECOND BOAT!

Mitchell Kapor

#2. Having information that the other side doesn't have gives VCs an advantage ... they take advantage of entrepreneurs who haven't been through this before ... they were totally willing to take advantage of us.

Mitchell Kapor

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

Mitchell Kapor

#4. Inequality saps the will to conceive of ambitious solutions to large collective problems, because those problems no longer seem very collective.

George Packer

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

Mitchell Kapor

#6. It would be disastrous if bad planning policy meant that today's new developments become tomorrow's climate slums

Tim Yeo

#7. 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.

Mitchell Kapor

#8. My people are impressing on Tulwar's people the wisdom of surrender and a rapid shift of allegiance. I'm counting on most them being opportunist thugs who'll recognize a good thing when it's offered to them.

Alastair Reynolds

#9. Entrepreneurship is not only a mindset but a skillset.

Mitchell Kapor

#10. If Microsoft is the new IBM, Google is the new Microsoft - the defining company of the industry.

Mitchell Kapor

#11. Reading enables us to see with the keenest eyes, to hear with the finest ears, and listen to the sweetest voices of all time.

James Russell Lowell

#12. Architecture is politics.

Mitchell Kapor

#13. Now I really feel the landscape, I can be bold and include every tone of blue and pink: it's enchanting, it's delicious.

Claude Monet

#14. I'm learning that everything doesn't always come back the way you send it. Sometimes, love is more brick and less boomerang.

Rudy Francisco

#15. [The Internet,] A Superhighway through the Wasteland?

Mitchell Kapor

#16. People say I make strange choices, but they're not strange for me. My sickness is that I'm fascinated by human behavior, by what's underneath the surface, by the worlds inside people.

Johnny Depp

#17. It was good for us, I suppose. Those kinds of times produce qualities in us that make us better for having had them. My parents were not getting along. My mother was quite intolerant of friendships that were being developed.

Fay Wray