Mitchell Kapor Quotations

Architecture is politics.

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.

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.

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

[The Internet,] A Superhighway through the Wasteland?

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

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

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.

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.

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