Mitch Kapor Quotes

Facebook is a powerful company, yes, but so was IBM.

My guess is that Apple won't just pass Microsoft in market capitalization, but will go way beyond it.

I really think the app store is kind of the killer app for Apple and for Google.

You've got to remember there's intense competition between Microsoft and Amazon.

We got bigger, much scarier competitors. We ended up with Microsoft, a company with all the money in the world, the way I look at those guys. And IBM, another company that, historically, dwarfed us.

Hundreds of these companies I've seen since the beginning stages - including Dropbox and Airbnb - one of them has actually been crushed by an incumbent. The Googles, the Twitters, the Facebooks, they might be someone to acquire you, which is not necessarily a bad position to be in.

Pretty much, Apple and Dell are the only ones in this industry making money. They make it by being Wal-Mart. We make it by innovation.

In the early '80s, I happened to find myself in the vicinity of people who would work for Microsoft five years later.

Today, we have our own concentrations of economic power. Instead of Standard Oil, U.S. Steel, the Union Pacific Railroad, and J. P. Morgan and Company, we have Amazon, Google, Apple, Facebook, and Microsoft.

Companies like Google and Facebook may offer jobs allowing or requiring imagination and creativity, but the whole of Silicon Valley accounts for only 3 percent of national income and a smaller percentage of national employment.

Think of everything in Seattle - Microsoft, Amazon, Starbucks. Then you go down to Silicon Valley - Intel, Apple, Google, Facebook, Twitter. What does New York produce?

Bill Gates is the pope of the personal computer industry. He decides who's going to build.

As you know, Microsoft eventually kind of grabbed the gold ring out of Apple's hands, I guess.

There are lots of people in the Silicon Valley who are interested in working at a fast-moving, dynamic company like Google. Not just my family members.

We’re far behind [Microsoft]. They are 3 time bigger than we are. They have a monopoly and we don’t—darnit!

Who have I picked fights with over the years? Bill Gates. Google. Mark Zuckerberg. Even - despite everything that's written about my relationship with Steve Jobs - we had yelling matches.

I'm delighted to be returning to my California roots and joining Google.

With tech companies, whoever's the leader is always questioned, you know. They say, 'Is this the end of them?' And - there's more - more times people think that's the case than it really is the case.

There was a 'Wired' cover that had a big Apple logo with a crown of barbed wire as thorns, and underneath it just said, 'Pray.' I remember this because of how upsetting it was. Basically saying either it's going to just go out of business or be bought.

When I joined Google, it was a 1,500-person company, which I thought was huge, since I don't think of myself as a corporate person.

Compared to Apple, Internet companies like Google and Facebook don't have strong perspectives on the way they want the world to work.

I spent 15 years at IBM, then five years at Freescale Semiconductor.

Most competition in Silicon Valley now heads toward there being one monopolistic winner.

Facebook, Amazon, Apple, and Microsoft are building their own versions of the future. And they get bigger and bigger.

If I didn't love acting, I would love to work at Google... if they'd have me. They have the coolest perks a workplace can have.