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Jean-Philippe Courtois Quotes

Innovation will come from an ecosystem of pervasive computing so natural and all-encompassing that it disappears into the background.

Jean-Philippe Courtois

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: businessman
Nationality: french

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Innovation Will Natural Ecosystem

Yesterday I, along with a bipartisan Congressional Delegation of lawmakers, inspected the detention facilities at Guantanamo used to house individuals detained in the War on Terrorism.

War House Yesterday Terrorism Used

It's weird because I am accessible to people on Twitter, and I can choose to read good things or mean things, and people can reach out to me directly and tell me how much they hate me or love the song. It's a very strange new paradigm as an artist to find yourself among this kind of connectivity.

Love Good Hate Yourself I Am People

There are people in every time and every land who want to stop history in its tracks. They fear the future, mistrust the present, and invoke the security of a comfortable past which, in fact, never existed.

Fear Future History Time Past Stop

Not in our make-up, to be sure - not in the pose which is preceded by the tantaras of a trumpet - do the essential traits in our character first reveal themselves. But truly in the little things the real self is exteriorised.

Character Little Things Self Pose

As separate people, we are weak, but we could be a peaceful, powerful nation.

People Powerful Peaceful Weak Nation

We live in a diverse society - in fact, a diverse world - and we must learn to live in peace and with respect for each other.

Live Respect Peace World Society

It's hard to be in the limelight and write songs that cater to fans that have expectations of you. We just want to write songs that we love, but all the different people with different ideas coming in make it difficult. We have to ask ourselves if we're writing for the most important people: the fans.

Love People Ideas Writing You Want

There was a best-selling book in the late '60s and '70s called 'The Adventurers' by Harold Robbins. The lead character's name was Dax. Anyone that's roughly my age that's named Dax is named from that book.

Age Character Book Name Late Lead

Sometimes I feel that 'Footloose' is the rite of passage.

Feel Sometimes Passage I Feel Rite

I made three short films of my own which I wrote, produced, directed... you did everything in those days. My favourite one was something I shot on VHS... a little documentary.

Short You Three My Own Everything

I've always loved clothes, especially handbags and shoes. I'd rather save my money on clothing and wear crap, but have the handbags and shoes. I used to buy a Ferragamo or Louis Vuitton bag every job that I got. Now I have a child, and we pay for private school, so I've had to scale back!

Shoes Money Job School Child Loved

This paperback is very interesting, but I find it will never replace a hardcover book - it makes a very poor doorstop.

Alfred Hitchcock

Book Interesting Find Poor Never

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