Dean Kamen Quotes

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• [Chuck's wife] was standing behind me at the time and she said, 'Chuck hasn't fed himself in 19 years. So, you've got a choice: We…
• An innovation is one of those things that society looks at and says, if we make this part of the way we live and work,…
• In some cases, inventions prohibit innovation because we're so caught up in playing with the technology, we forget about the fact that it was supposed…
• I'd rather lose my own money than someone else's.
• I think an education is not only important, it is the most important thing you can do with your life.
• We are in a race between knowledge and catastrophe. If we keep track of what is important, never lower our standards or forget why we…
• Tell me it's never been done. Because the only real laws in this world-the only things we really know-are the two postulates of relativity, the…
• Segway will be to the car what the car was to the horse and buggy.
• I think our society is no longer properly valuing the intangible potential of innovation, even if we have to be a little uncomfortable with the…
• My biggest failure is I have too many to talk about.
• It’s not what you do – it’s what you are becoming.
• Inspiration comes from the heart. The letter ‘I’ is the heart of F”I”RST… (F Inspiration R S T).
• To me, innovations are the wheel, fire, language, movable type. There are not 3 million innovations; there are 3 million inventions
• New ideas in technology are literally a dime-a-dozen, or cheaper than that
• I started realizing that I wasn't so dumb; rather, most people simply didn't know the answers to the questions that I was interested in-or they…
• I consider high-speed data transmission an invention that became a major innovation. It changed the way we all communicate
• As we move towards 8 or 10 billion people on the planet, there's a little less gold per capita. Each one of us will continue…
• A patent, or invention, is any assemblage of technologies or ideas that you can put together that nobody put together that way before. That's how…
• We cant live any more in a world which is based on stuff and not ideas. If you want to live with the world of…
• I don't want to think about how many people have thought or still think that I'm crazy.

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