Dean Kamen

I'm a human entropy producer.

— Dean Kamen

It’s not what you do – it’s what you are becoming.

— Dean Kamen

My biggest failure is I have too many to talk about.

— Dean Kamen

I'd rather lose my own money than someone else's.

— Dean Kamen

The city needs a car like a fish needs a bicycle.

— Dean Kamen

In a free society, you get what you celebrate.

— Dean Kamen

New ideas in technology are literally a dime-a-dozen, or cheaper than that

— Dean Kamen

Nothing that has value, real value, has no cost. Not freedom, not food, not shelter, not healthcare.

— Dean Kamen

If history is any indication, all truths will eventually turn out to be false.

— Dean Kamen

Segway will be to the car what the car was to the horse and buggy.

— Dean Kamen

I think an education is not only important, it is the most important thing you can do with your life.

— Dean Kamen

I do not want to waste any time. And if you are not working on important things, you are wasting time.

— Dean Kamen

I don't want to think about how many people have thought or still think that I'm crazy.

— Dean Kamen

If you're going to fail, you might as well fail at the big ones.

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We are in a race between knowledge and catastrophe. If we keep track of what is important, never lower our standards or…

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We live in a world where virtually everybody expects there's going to be some reasonable therapy for virtually any situation.

— Dean Kamen

You have teenagers thinking they're going to make millions as NBA stars when that's not realistic for even 1 percent of them.…

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What really makes it an invention is that someone decides not to change the solution to a known problem, but to change…

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As we move towards 8 or 10 billion people on the planet, there's a little less gold per capita. Each one of…

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To me, innovations are the wheel, fire, language, movable type. There are not 3 million innovations; there are 3 million inventions

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Life is so short. Why waste a single day of it doing something that doesn't matter, that doesn't try to do something…

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The future is going to require really smart people. What we think are crises today probably will be no big deal, and…

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Sporting competitions seem to be what we obsess over, frankly. So if we can put engineering, science, technology into a format of…

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I think in our lifetime, that level of acceptance of "well, we couldn't do any better," won't be tolerated. We're going to…

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Education, actual learning - it is hard work. It's very personal. Your parents don't teach you anything. Your teachers don't teach you…

— Dean Kamen

I would argue that education, actual learning - it is hard work. It's very personal. Your parents don't teach you anything. Your…

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Clearly, there are many places where diesel is king or gas-turbine is king, or IC engines will win, but there are many…

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I think our society is no longer properly valuing the intangible potential of innovation, even if we have to be a little…

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“In a world of material goods and material exchange trade. I have got a hunk of gold and you have a watch.…

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The word entrepreneur is associated with success and adventure. From my life, the only thing I can tell you that's consistently associated…

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Invention and entrepreneurship isn't about pure technology. Most people take whatever they see in front of them and relate it to something…

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More than ever, the world needs good engineers. However, the pool of talent is shrinking not growing.

— Dean Kamen

Sometimes we crash and burn. It's better to do it in private.

— Dean Kamen

Everybody has to be able to participate in a future that they want to live for. That's what technology can do.

— Dean Kamen

Inspiration comes from the heart. The letter ‘I’ is the heart of F”I”RST… (F Inspiration R S T).

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My biggest worry is I'm running out of time and energy. Thirty years ago I thought 10 years was a really long time.

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I don't work on a project unless I believe that it will dramatically improve life for a bunch of people.

— Dean Kamen

Kids are intimidated by the way science and technology is presented. It's made, frankly, quite boring and it becomes part of a…

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We cant live any more in a world which is based on stuff and not ideas. If you want to live with…

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People take the longest possible paths, digress to numerous dead ends, and make all kinds of mistakes. Then historians come along and…

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