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Mitch Kapor Quotes

American - Businessman | November 1, 1950 -

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.

Accomplishment End You Back See Web

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.

Know Open Out Source Web Python

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

Power Opportunities Think Valley How

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

Information Way Wikipedia Subjects

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.

Attention You Would Valuable Ecology

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

You Build Company Image Founder Get

I woke up nights, worrying that Lotus was out of control - that no one would know what to do.

Control Know Out Up Woke Would

Computers ought to help people find their own best path through lots of textual information.

Path Best People Computers Help Own

Managerial and professional people hadn't really used computers, hadn't sat down at keyboards, until personal computers. Personal computers have a totally different feel.

People Computers Feel Down Personal

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.

Management Small Grow Done Evolve

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.

Design Understanding Software Needs

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.

Talent People Feel Seriously Never

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