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It is possible to take a population of students who are failing and whose schools are failing them, who are being written off as not being college material, and if they have the right support, they can all go to college and succeed.
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We have a responsibility to give people opportunities to do what they can do. It's a fundamental tenet of democratic society. Libertarians who believe in a completely minimalist state, and don't feel we have that responsibility, are harming humanity.
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The kind of products you envision as an entrepreneur is a function of your life experience.
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I routinely failed to understand that 'simple and straightforward' would have been a much better product strategy for Lotus.
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Life in cyberspace seems to be shaping up exactly like Thomas Jefferson would have wanted: founded on the primacy of individual liberty and a commitment to pluralism, diversity, and community.
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Successful entrepreneurs develop products that inspire their passion. They have to. It's that passion that gets them through the long, arduous, uncertain and frightening early days of a start-up.
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Often, the disconnect between the marketing hype around a new product and what the product actually does is astounding.
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When new technology in the classroom starts happening, some people get very excited and think of it as a panacea. It attracts very high amounts of money; it raises expectations, and those expectations aren't met.
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You can't be in the tech community... without realizing there's a big shortage of talent.
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People in the industry foresee a time in which, for many people, the only thing they'll need on a computer is a browser.
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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.
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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.'
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Physicians today, as human beings, are not exempt from the perverse economic pressures created by fee-for-service regimes to see more patients for shorter appointments and order more tests and procedures. If the incentives were changed to pay to foster better health outcomes, I am convinced physician behavior would change over time.
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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.
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Computers ought to help people find their own best path through lots of textual information.
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I woke up nights, worrying that Lotus was out of control - that no one would know what to do.
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I don't think Silicon Valley understands the power of Wikipedia, how it works, or the opportunities it represents.
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I soon realized that the best thing I could do for the profession of human services was to get out of it.
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We've already gotten a significant grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and a university consortium. I think the whole sector of Foundations, potentially with government support, is promising - more than promising, I think, it's substantial.
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I was trying to figure out what to do next, I'd been accumulating ideas for productivity tools - software people could use every day, particularly to help organize their lives.
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The culmination of all of that was the decision to start a company, which became Lotus, to do a product, which became 1-2-3. By the time I reached that point it had been four years, and it felt like a lifetime, but really it was kind of evolutionary.
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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.
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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.
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Everyone has a subconscious and automatic preference of this over that. Once you're aware of that, you can take steps to change.
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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.
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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.
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Velano Vascular has developed a simple, game-changing innovation that will improve the way medicine has been practiced for decades.
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It's illegitimate to talk about a post-scarcity Utopia without talking about questions of distribution. There have always been these Utopian predictions - 'electricity too cheap to meter' was the atomic promise of the 1950s.
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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.
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Old ways of thinking die hard, particularly when they were weaned by legally enforced monopolies.
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Diversifying our tech talent pool is an imperative for the tech sector. More diverse engineers and entrepreneurs will bring about a new type of innovation that Silicon Valley has yet to see.
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Startups, in some sense, have gotten so easy to start that we are confusing two things. And what we are confusing, often, is, 'How far can you get in your first day of travel?' with, 'How long it is going to take to get up to the top of the mountain?'
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The more you eliminate the inefficient use of information, the better it is for productivity.
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In my case, having knocked around at different jobs helped me get a sense of what the world is actually like and also helped me get out of a cocoon.
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Today, in the Internet gold rush, so many people go into dot-com jobs right from school or even before finishing. Their motivation is understandable, but sometimes they just lack experience.
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Linden Lab's technological breakthroughs have made 'Second Life' a truly revolutionary experience.
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