Philippe Kahn - People Quotes

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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.

Philippe Kahn

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

Philippe Kahn

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

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

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

Philippe Kahn

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