“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.

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