Philippe Kahn Quotes

• Too many are focused on rewriting the past, invent the future!

  Philippe Kahn

  Past, Rewriting, Focused

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

  Philippe Kahn

  Phones, People, Evil

  "Father of the Camera Phone". NPR Interview, January 06, 2007.

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• The power of Open Source is the power of the people. The people rule.

  Philippe Kahn

  People, Source, Open Source

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

  Philippe Kahn

  Tecnología, Pensamiento, Personas

  Investor's Business Daily, March 2007.

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

  Philippe Kahn

  Phones, Roots, Cameras

  NPR Interview, January 2007.

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• Just like a picture is worth 1000 words, a camera phone is worth 1000 cell phones!

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  Phones, Cells, Cameras

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• The key word is flexibility, the ability to adapt constantly. Darwin said it clearly. People thought that he mainly talked about survival of the fittest. What he said was that the species that survive are usually not the smartest or the strongest, but the ones most responsive to change. So being attentive to customers and potential partners is my best advice--after, of course, perseverance and patience.

  Philippe Kahn

  Perseverance, Keys, People

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• 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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  Technology, Focus, Innovation

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• 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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  Should Have, People, Focus

  Commencement speech for University of California Santa Cruz students, 1996.

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• 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!

  Philippe Kahn

  Practice, People, Half

  Interview with the Times, 2002.

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• 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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  Looks, Want, Faces

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• 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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  Play, Gardening, Trying

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

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  Roots, Innovation, Invention

  Q and A part of a speech at the Silicon Valley computer museum, 2005.

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• 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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  Believe, Doubt, Enemy

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

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  Labs, Sugar, Cubes

  Founding speech for "Fullpower" technology company, 2003.

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• Todos los días practico con la flauta. Llevo décadas haciéndolo y cada día encuentro algo nuevo que me inspira para todo lo demás que hago en mis días.

  Philippe Kahn

  Inspire, Flutes, Something New

  Interview with the Financial Times, 2002.

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• 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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  Smart, Kids, Results

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

  Philippe Kahn

  Outcomes, Fit, Excellent

  "Borland Bought by Micro Focus for $75M" by Jennifer Pittman, www.santacruzsentinel.com. May 06, 2009.

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• 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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  Goal, Energy, Want

  "Father of the Camera Phone". NPR Interview, January 06, 2007.

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

  Philippe Kahn

  Discipline, Newton

  "Accelerometrics: The Art of Motion Sensing". www.fullpower.com. July 10, 2008.

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

  Philippe Kahn

  Real, Ties, People

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