Philippe Kahn Quotes

#1. Camera-phones are like nuclear power plants: bad people will turn them into evil, good people will put them to good use.

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#2. Every day I practise my flute. I've been doing it for decades and every day I find something new that inspires me for all the rest that I do in my days.

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#3. The power of Open Source is the power of the people. The people rule.

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#4. The biggest enemy is doubt. If you don't believe in what you are doing, you aren't going to make it.

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#5. I am surprised at all the people in the high-tech industry focused on "making money" ... If that's all they want to do, they should have a $100 printing press in their basements and they will truly "make money." Instead, if we focus all that energy on innovation, we'll change the world for the best.

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#6. Trying to solve the worlds problems by making things 5% more efficient is like trying to play the violin with gardening gloves. Not much good will come out of it. We must invent new ways!

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#7. I figured that I wasn't as smart or talented as the other kids around, so I just had to work twice as hard. Surprisingly, results showed quickly. I was hooked!

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#8. Accelerometrics is a cool new discipline. Newton and Galileo would love it.

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#9. We focus on building innovation and inventing technology futures and we figure that it will take care of the rest. So far, it's done wonders.

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#10. Radically simplify the user interface, reinvent it, enough face lifts! You can put as much lipstick on a chicken as you want, it's never going to look good!

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#11. There is no greater goal than to truly improve Mr and Ms Everyone's health, as an innovator that is where I want to spend my energy.

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#12. If people would turn their TVs off for half the time, study science and practice an instrument, they'd be virtuosos and have Ph.Ds!

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#13. I build things that I think are exciting from a technology standpoint and will help make life easier, simpler and better for people.

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#14. We are less than a decade away from the medical lab the size of a sugar cube.

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#15. Just like a picture is worth 1000 words, a camera phone is worth 1000 cell phones!

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#16. Great fit and synergism for both companies and excellent outcome for employees, customers and shareholders.

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#17. Camera-Phones are at the root of the Citizen-Journalism revolution.

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#18. Invention is the root of innovation. Innovation is the major force for change in the future.

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#19. Too many are focused on rewriting the past, invent the future!

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#20. I rarely saw people sitting at computers producing real code wearing ties.

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