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

Philippe Kahn

#People Quotes #Focus Quotes #Innovation Quotes

“We have not the time to take our time.”
“We leave traces of ourselves wherever we go, on whatever we touch.”

Source : Lewis Thomas (1990). “A Long Line of Cells Collected Essays”
“She was saved from prettiness by the intensity of her gaze.”

Source : Paul Bowles (2011). “The Sheltering Sky”, p.7, Harper Collins
“Black music has become a commercial commodity. Live performances are not so accessible as they were previously. It use to be possible to go to the bar on the corner and hear music. It was available for a fifteen cent beer.”

Source : "Dialogue with Archie Shepp". Interview with Scott Cashman, www.detroitartistsworkshop.com.
“Take your Bible and take your newspaper, and read both. But interpret newspapers from your Bible.”

Source : Karl Barth, Eberhard Busch (2005). “Gespräche, 1963”
“This is really a pretty good system you have here. What do you call it? "Due process". We're very proud of it.”

Source : United States v. Juan Ramirez-Lopez, No. 01-50164, 9th Circuit, January 10, 2003.
“It's very easy to live here. You're anonymous here. Nobody knows who you are.”
“Elednor,' he said, 'Elednor, why have you betrayed me? Come back to me. Come back to were you belong. I alone need you...”

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