Philippe Kahn: Frasi in inglese
On why saving a bit of power here or there will not solve our energy problems. Comments made at the opening of the movie "An Inconvenient Truth.
On financial planning at a speech at the Smithsonian.
Fortune, June 29th, 2015, regarding the focus that Fullpower Technologies has on gathering and understanding sleep data https://fortune.com/2015/06/29/sleep-data/.
Wareable, April 7th, 2015 http://www.wareable.com/meet-the-boss/the-man-behind-motionx-too-many-sensors-are-counterproductive-7383.
On what it takes to keep on building company after company and innovating, fire-chat with Stewart Alsop, Agenda Conference.
Interview with the Times reporter, 2002.
The Growth Show podcast, April 15th, 2015, regarding why some smartwatches to date have failed https://soundcloud.com/the-growth-show/apple-watch-special.
Interview with the Financial Times reporter, 2002.
Commencement speech for UCSC students 1996 | UCSC Press Release http://www.ucsc.edu/news_events/press_releases/archive/95-96/06-96/061196-Graduation_ceremoni.html.
“We are less than a decade away from the medical lab the size of a sugar cube.”
Founding speech for Fullpower, 2003, focusing in particular on the power of MEMS and Nanotechnology and its applications to life sciences.
“We fight for programmer's right!”
Regarding the Lotus litigation that Kahn won in the Supreme Court. Lotus maintained that the orders of the words in a menu were copyrightable and not just functional. For example "Cut, Copy, Paste" could be copyrighted. Kahn's point was that if it was so, soon all software development and innovation would cease.
“Invention is the root of innovation. Innovation is the major force for change in the future.”
Comments made in the Q and A part of a speech at the Silicon Valley computer museum in 2005 regarding the energy spent in Silicon Valley at managing perception as opposed to creating new technology. In response to a question about the power of venture capital and consumer marketing and how it is determining the future of technology.
“Camera-Phones are at the root of the Citizen-Journalism revolution.”
NPR Interview January 2007, regarding the use of camera phones in citizen-journalism http://weekendamerica.publicradio.org/programs/2007/01/06/father_of_the_camera.html.
Scientific American June 18th, 2013, regarding the need for noninvasive wearable devices http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/next-big-thing-wearable-gadgets-very-small/.
Wareable, April 7th, 2015 http://www.wareable.com/meet-the-boss/the-man-behind-motionx-too-many-sensors-are-counterproductive-7383.
“Just like a picture is worth 1000 words, a camera phone is worth 1000 cell phones!”
Speech at the firt Future Imaging conference in Monterrey, California.
http://www.wired.com/2013/07/sailor-philippe-kahn/ Wired July 12th, 2013, on how his passion for sailing inspired the creation of some MotionX sensors].
“Accelerometrics is a cool new discipline. Newton and Galileo would love it.”
MarketWire Press Release, July 2008 http://www2.marketwire.com/mw/release_html_b1?release_id=414689.
USA Today interview January 2007, regarding the birth of the camera phone http://www.usatoday.com/tech/columnist/kevinmaney/2007-01-23-kahn-cellphone-camera_x.htm.
NPR Interview January 2007, regarding current uses of the camera phone http://weekendamerica.publicradio.org/programs/2007/01/06/father_of_the_camera.html.
“Too many are focused on rewriting the past, invent the future!”
Comments made in a speech at the computer museum regarding the energy spent in Silicon Valley at managing perception as opposed to creating new technology.
“The power of Open Source is the power of the people. The people rule.”
Rebuttal to Steve Balmer at the Agenda Conference, after the Microsoft executive explained that Open Source would not go anywhere.
NPR Interview January 2007, regarding innovative uses of the camera phone http://weekendamerica.publicradio.org/programs/2007/01/06/father_of_the_camera.html.
San Jose Mercury News May 6th 2009, regarding the Sale of Borland to Micro Focus http://www.mercurynews.com/centralcoast/ci_12309355.
Investor's Business Daily March 2007, regarding technology and the future http://www.investors.com/editorial/IBDArticles.asp?artsec=21&issue=20070306.