Mitch Kapor Quotes

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.

Mitch Kapor

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• The American Revolution was carried out in the name of the people, and it was supposedly 'We, the people,' who created the government that Americans still live under.

  

  Edmund Morgan
  • People
  • Live
  • American

• You know, the Brits had a way of - running an empire. And I don't think America is comfortable with an empire.

  

  Pat Robertson
  • America
  • Think
  • Know

• If you think there are no new frontiers, watch a boy ring the front doorbell on his first date.

  

  Olin Miller
  • Think
  • You
  • Boy

• Misfits aren't misfits among other misfits.

  

  Barry Manilow
  • Other
  • Misfits
  • Among

• Our critics would love nothing more for us to go away and just be quiet. And we won't give them that satisfaction. We have young children that, one day, when they understand more of what's happened and what's transpired, we wanna be able to say to them, you know, we did our best. And we told the truth.

  

  Valerie Plame
  • Love
  • Truth
  • Give

• Shaming people into being virtuous doesn't change behaviour.

  

  Jaan Tallinn
  • People
  • Change
  • Being

• It's funny; people get so doctrinaire about music. It should be the last thing you don't have an open mind about.

  

  Randy Newman
  • People
  • Music
  • Mind

• The sci-fi movies I grew up with, the metaphor was very rich, and they used to really mean something: David Cronenberg's films, or John Carpenter's films, or the Phil Kaufman and Don Segel versions of 'Invasion Of The Body Snatchers,' or George Romero's early zombie films.

  

  Edgar Wright
  • Up
  • Body
  • Movies

• All of the religions are looking after the poor. At least leave me alone to look after the rich. I am the rich man's guru.

  

  Rajneesh
  • Rich
  • Poor
  • Religions

• I think I'll die underrated, but it's alright, man.

  

  Fat Joe
  • Think
  • Man
  • Die

• Seeing what happens when you rip yourself open is what your job is all about.

  

  Ed Harris
  • Job
  • Yourself
  • Seeing

• There is no such thing as the Shadow Cabinet. It is purely a Press term. The Prime Minister is by no means bound to include the members of the Shadow Cabinet in his Cabinet, or even in the Government. I myself left several out.

  

  Clement Attlee
  • Shadow

• There are people in this country who have waited for decades for affordable health coverage for themselves and their families.

  

  Kathleen Sebelius
  • People
  • Country
  • Health

• I like to read non-fiction on my e-reader, but as for fiction, I usually like to have a copy to keep at home.

  

  Jenny Han
  • Home

• I am actually really boring and I lead a quiet life. I love being at home, cooking for my boys, watching movies and I like nothing better than to go to bed early with a book.

  

  Patsy Kensit
  • Life
  • Home
  • Book

• Among living artists, George Condo may be the most embraced by the powers that be.

  

  Jerry Saltz
  • May

• I'm a multi-tasker. I was down with that stuff before they invented the term.

  

  Chuck D

• One of the effects of living with electric information is that we live habitually in a state of information overload. There's always more than you can cope with.

  

  Marshall McLuhan
  • Live

• Britain has had some very strong and successful queens throughout history, but, since the Act of Succession in 1701, they have only been eligible to take the throne if they had no brothers. If there was a boy in the family, no matter where he came in the order of birth, he leapfrogged his sisters to take the title.

  

  Penny Junor
  • Family
  • History
  • Strong

• Governor Isaac Stevens of the Washington Territory said there were a great many white people in our country, and many more would come; that he wanted the land marked out so that the Indians and the white man could be separated.

  

  Chief Joseph
  • People
  • Great
  • Country

• It does not destroy matter, which is reassuring. Rewriting one law of physics is worse than trying to eat one peanut.

  

  Larry Niven
  • Trying
  • Law

• When I first did a U.S. pilot season, there were very few British actors schlepping around town trying to get into television. That was 1999.

  

  Jamie Bamber
  • Trying

• The way you change and help music is by tryin' to invent new ways to play

  

  Miles Davis
  • Music
  • Way
  • Helping

• 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.

  

  Mitch Kapor
  • Trying
  • Productivity
  • Software