Philippe Kahn
Inventor of the camera phone, CEO of Fullpower, Founder of Starfish Software, Lightsurf technologies, Borland, and the Lee-Kahn Foundation.
The power of Open Source is the power of the people. The people rule.
I'd gone to the Lamaze classes, and the second time I said, 'Breathe!' Sonia said, 'Shut up!' So I said, 'OK, I'll sit at this desk and find something to do.
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.
Camera-Phones are at the root of the Citizen-Journalism revolution.
If you win you want to win fairly, with class and respect your opponent. Some companies look at everything as something that should be theirs. It can be an invention, market share, or a contract. They don't have an ounce of conscientiousness or compassion. The notion of fairness means nothing to them. The only thing they understand is leverage. There is a better way.
We fight for programmer's right!
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.
Accelerometrics is a cool new discipline. Newton and Galileo would love it.
If I had a choice, I would have wanted to be Debussy or Couperin. I listen and it is magic. I just can't understand how they conceived enchantment. I couldn't so I decided to be a mathematician, the next best thing.
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.
Too many are focused on rewriting the past, invent the future!
I build things that I think are exciting from a technology standpoint and will help make life easier, simpler and better for people.
Just like a picture is worth 1000 words, a camera phone is worth 1000 cell phones!
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!
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.
Camera-phones are like nuclear power plants: bad people will turn them into evil, good people will put them to good use.
Invention is the root of innovation. Innovation is the major force for change in the future.
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.
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!