I'm an inveterate note taker - I scribble all these things down on pieces of paper. I wanted to create some way of organizing all of them.
Oakland's time is coming. In fact, Oakland's time is already here. Tech is coming to Oakland, and it's terribly exciting.
I had no fear of speaking to large audiences.
I'd been a great angel investor, but professional venture capital was clearly not the right thing for me.
People are hungry for community. They're hungry for meaning in a society that is oriented around the production and consumption of consumer goods.
If only I'd stayed on the West Coast, I might have made something of myself.
My history is to find the next big thing early.
I soon realized that the best thing I could do for the profession of human services was to get out of it.
There are a lot of similarities between cyberspace and the frontier. It's pretty raw and primitive. I mean, you have to churn your own butter in cyberspace. You can't go down to the 7-Eleven and buy a stick of butter because it's not that well developed.
The Internet, the network of networks, is growing at an exponential pace. It's growing so fast, in fact, nobody really knows how many people use the Internet.
I don't think Silicon Valley understands the power of Wikipedia, how it works, or the opportunities it represents.
Wikipedia has a way of compiling compendiums of information on subjects.
I woke up nights, worrying that Lotus was out of control - that no one would know what to do.
Computers ought to help people find their own best path through lots of textual information.
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.
'Silicon Valley' has come to mean the Bay Area, not just down the Peninsula.
On a personal note, I was born in Brooklyn. My folks moved out to Long Island when I was quite young, but once a Brooklynite, always a Brooklynite.
For people who know both New York and the Bay Area, it is a complement to say that Oakland is San Francisco's Brooklyn. It's a complement both to Oakland and to Brooklyn. And, if you look at Brooklyn, Brooklyn is hot; Brooklyn is cool.
If advertisers want to decorate their ads to increase their conversions by showing what users think, that's a good thing.
There's a great deal of suspicion and misunderstanding about IT among practicing doctors. One hears things like, 'I don't want to be turned into a data entry clerk, and I don't want some machine between me and my patients.'
