Philippe Kahn: Quotes about people

Philippe Kahn is Entrepreneur, camera phone creator. Explore interesting quotes on people.
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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, 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

Commencement speech for UCSC students 1996 | UCSC Press Release http://www.ucsc.edu/news_events/press_releases/archive/95-96/06-96/061196-Graduation_ceremoni.html.

Money , People , World , Change

“Sitting outside a cafe people watching would be no fun if everyone looks the same. It would be an Orwellian world where everyone wears the same thing and uses the same phone. Wearable tech is diversity.”

Philippe Kahn

Wareable, April 7th, 2015 http://www.wareable.com/meet-the-boss/the-man-behind-motionx-too-many-sensors-are-counterproductive-7383.

People , World

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

Philippe Kahn

NPR Interview January 2007, regarding current uses of the camera phone http://weekendamerica.publicradio.org/programs/2007/01/06/father_of_the_camera.html.

People , Evil

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

Philippe Kahn

Rebuttal to Steve Balmer at the Agenda Conference, after the Microsoft executive explained that Open Source would not go anywhere.

People

“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

Interview with the Times reporter, 2002.

People , Study , Science , Time

“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

Investor's Business Daily March 2007, regarding technology and the future http://www.investors.com/editorial/IBDArticles.asp?artsec=21&issue=20070306.

Life , People , Thinking , Help