Best 20 quotes of Philippe Kahn on MyQuotes

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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!

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!

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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!

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

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.