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Quotes by Mitchell Kapor

Mitchell Kapor

“Architecture is politics.”

“Inside every working anarchy, theres an Old Boy Network.”

“This is the snobbery of the people on the Mayflower looking down their noses at the people who came over ON THE SECOND BOAT!”

“What is design? Its where you stand with a foot in two worlds - the world of technology and the world of people and human purposes - and you try to bring the two together.”

“TV will be transformed. People will look at it as historically quaint that you had to watch something that others chose for you.”

“The Internet is the first thing that humanity has built that humanity doesnt understand, the largest experiment in anarchy that we have ever had.”

“Warning: the Internet may contain traces of nuts”

“Theres a statistical theory that if you gave a million monkeys typewriters and set them to work, theyd eventually come up with the complete works of Shakespeare. Thanks to the Internet, we now know this isnt true.”

Getting information off the Internet is like taking a drink from a fire hydrant.

Inside every working anarchy, theres an Old Boy Network.

Architecture is politics.

What is design? Its where you stand with a foot in two worlds - the world of technology and the world of people and human purposes - and you try to bring the two together.