Philippe Kahn Quotes

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

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.

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!

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

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!

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

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

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

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

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!

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

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.

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

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!

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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