A typical medical practice is like an old-fashioned business which keeps all of its records on paper. It can probably track down any individual transaction if it needs to, but it's basically helpless when it comes to overall measurements of performance. And that's the big problem.

— Mitch Kapor

Before I started a company, I was an employee with a bad attitude. I was always felt like, bosses are stupid, and people weren't well treated.

— Mitch Kapor

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

— Mitch Kapor

Human intelligence is a marvelous, subtle, and poorly understood phenomenon. There is no danger of duplicating it anytime soon.

— Mitch Kapor

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

— Mitch Kapor

If you look at the history of other movements, whether Civil Rights or environmental rights, these are all decades-long undertakings.

— 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

Lotus's efforts around the Mac were pathetically unsuccessful, which is sad.

— 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

No, my family is Russian, Georgian, via Ellis Island.

— Mitch Kapor