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Philippe Kahn Biography

Philippe Kahn (born March 16, 1952) is a mathematician, technology innovator, entrepreneur and founder of four technology companies: Fullpower Technologies, LightSurf Technologies, Starfish Software and Borland. Kahn is credited with creating the first camera phone, being a pioneer for wearable technology intellectual property, and is the author of dozens of technology patents covering wearable, eyewear, smartphone, mobile, imaging, wireless, synchronization and medical technologies.

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

Labs, Sugar, Cubes, Decade, Lab

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

Easier, Make, People, Simpler, Technology, Thinking

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!

Come, Gardening, Making, Play, Trying, Worlds

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!

Half, People, Practice, Turn, Virtuosos

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.

Day, Days, Flutes, Inspire, Practise, Something New

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

Cameras, Cells, Like, Phones, Words

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

Focused, Future, Past, Rewriting

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

Open Source, People, Rule, Source

The key word is flexibility, the ability to adapt constantly. Darwin said it clearly. People thought that he mainly talked about survival of the fittest. What he said was that the species that survive are usually not the smartest or the strongest, but the ones most responsive to change. So being attentive to customers and potential partners is my best advice--after, of course, perseverance and patience.

Keys, Partners, People, Perseverance, Smartest, Survive

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.

Focus, Make, Money, People, Press, Should Have

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!

Chicken, Faces, Interface, Look, Looks, Want

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!

Hard, Kids, Results, Smart, Twice

I rarely saw people sitting at computers producing real code wearing ties.

Computers, People, Real, Ties