Tiny Panda Quotes
Quotes by Mitch Kapor
Mitch Kapor is a renowned entrepreneur and software developer, best known for founding Lotus Development Corporation and creating the groundbreaking Lotus 1-2-3 spreadsheet application. Born in 1950, Kapor's innovative spirit helped shape the personal computing landscape in the 1980s, earning him a place in tech history. Beyond his commercial success, he is a passionate advocate for open-source software and technology's role in social change, leaving a lasting legacy that intertwines entrepreneurship with a commitment to democratizing information technology.
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"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"Technology advances at exponential rates, and human institutions and societies do not. They adapt at much slower rates. Those gaps get wider and wider."
Mitch Kapor
"I give Bill Gates an A for vision because, as a business person and a strategist, he's brilliant. His flaw is that his view is not informed by a humanistic or compassionate vision of how to make computers work for people."
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"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."
Mitch Kapor"Computers ought to help people find their own best path through lots of textual information."
Mitch Kapor