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Philippe Kahn

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[Wikipedia] Philippe Kahn is a French engineer, entrepreneur, and founder of four technology companies: Borland, Starfish Software, LightSurf Technologies, and Fullpower Technologies. Kahn is credited with creating the first camera phone, being a pioneer for wearable technology intellectual property, and is the

Quotes by Philippe Kahn

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

Open source

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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.

Believe

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Every day I practise my flute. I've been doing it for decades and every day I find something new that inspires me…

Decades

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

Cameras

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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,…

Basements

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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,…

Chickens

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

Cameras

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

Focused

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

Cubes

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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…

Energy

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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…

Half

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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,…

Building

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

Discipline

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

Code

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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…

Easier

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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

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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…

Ability

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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.

Bad people

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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.…

Efficient

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

Business

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

Change

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