Jan Chipchase Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“From my time at Nokia, I've seen the 99% positive and occasionally negative impact that communication tools can have on people.”

“Technology, we find, amplifies behaviours. If you want to be anti-social, technology allows you to be. And vice versa.”

“The mobile phone is used from when you get up in the morning and is often the last thing you interact with at night.”

“The ability to identify someone at a moment's notice by snapping a photo of him or her, to trigger an immediate influx of data about the person behind the face, will forever change the world.”

“I specialise in taking teams of designers, psychologists, usability experts, sociologists and ethnographers into the field. It's called 'corporate anthropology,' but personally I'm more comfortable with 'design research,' because I'm not an anthropologist by training.”

“China is not a country, it's a continent. India is not a country, it's a continent.”

“As touch-screens have become more popular, they have retrained how we interact with images we see on many surfaces.”

“China in particular is an absolutely fascinating place to be. Culturally and politically and economically it's becoming more and more relevant. If you look at how China is perceived in different parts of the world, you can recognize it's very dynamic. It's also challenging what it thinks of itself.”

“At Nokia, we have an internal market for ideas. There could be someone in Nokia who wants research, and they will come to us.”

“China has a bigger middle class than the entire population of Europe.”