Philippe Kahn famous quotes

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

The power of Open Source is the power of the people. The people rule.
-- Philippe Kahn

#People #Source

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!
-- Philippe Kahn

#Looks #Want #Faces

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.
-- Philippe Kahn

#Inspire #Flutes #Something New

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

#Phones #Cells #Cameras

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!
-- Philippe Kahn

#Smart #Kids #Results

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.
-- Philippe Kahn

#Technology #Focus #Innovation

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.
-- Philippe Kahn

#People #Focus #Innovation

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

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!
-- Philippe Kahn

#Play #Gardening #Trying

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

#Roots #Innovation #Invention

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

#Past #Rewriting #Focused

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

#Believe #Doubt #Enemy

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

#Outcomes #Fit #Excellent

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

#Discipline #Newton

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

#Technology #Thinking #People

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

#Roots #Phones #Citizens

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

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.
-- Philippe Kahn

#Goal #Energy #Want

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

#Sugar #Cubes #Size

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

#Real #Ties #People