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.
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.
Computers ought to help people find their own best path through lots of textual information.
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.
Human intelligence is a marvelous, subtle, and poorly understood phenomenon. There is no danger of duplicating it anytime soon.
No, my family is Russian, Georgian, via Ellis Island.
The kind of products you envision as an entrepreneur is a function of your life experience.
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.
Lotus’s efforts around the Mac were pathetically unsuccessful, which is sad.
If information wants to be free, then that’s true everywhere, not just in information technology.
The widespread adoption of broadband and the continued advances in personal computing technology are finally making it possible for the collective creation of an online world on a realistic scale.
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.
If you look at the history of other movements, whether Civil Rights or environmental rights, these are all decades-long undertakings.