Philippe Kahn Quotes

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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!

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I build things that I think are exciting from a technology standpoint and will help make life easier, simpler and better for people.

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We're operating a huge sleep experiment, worldwide, unlike anything anyone has ever done. We have 250 million nights of sleep in our database, and we're using all the latest technologies to make sense of it.

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

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

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We're trying to change the Kleenex mentality of technology - you buy a smartband or an Android Wear watch and next year you'll throw it away. This is a horrible world we're preparing for the next generation. We have to get away from that crazy approach, as we look at the resources left on this planet. We need to be able to create objects that are worth keeping and upgrading.

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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!

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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!

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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.

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

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We were trying to monitor the sailboat, trying to help us keep it upright and optimized, and it turned out that sailing became an incredible practical laboratory.

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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.

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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.

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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!

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

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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.

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If a sleep monitor has electrodes and wires that look like something from Frankenstein's lab, you might not wear it consistently, and the information it gathers and reports may be compromised.

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A watch is much more than a list of functionality and features... the bottom line is this is fashion, this is image, this something that is on our skin that we want to wear, and it's not just another electronic gadget that becomes obsolete…. there is an emotional character to it.

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

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

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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.

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

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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.

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

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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.

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