Best Dean Kamen Quotes
- Sometimes we crash and burn. It's better to do it in private. Better
- People take the longest possible paths, digress to numerous dead ends, and make all kinds of mistakes. Then historians come along and write summaries of… All
- Everybody has to be able to participate in a future that they want to live for. That's what technology can do. Able
- The city needs a car like a fish needs a bicycle. Bicycle
- I don't work on a project unless I believe that it will dramatically improve life for a bunch of people. Believe
- If history is any indication, all truths will eventually turn out to be false. All
- I'm a human entropy producer. Entropy
- Most of the time you will fail, but you will also occasionally succeed. Those occasional successes make all the hard work and sacrifice worthwhile. All
- My biggest worry is I'm running out of time and energy. Thirty years ago I thought 10 years was a really long time. Ago
- Some broad themes brought me where I am today. At a very young age, my hobby became thinking and finding connections. Age
- Clearly, there are many places where diesel is king or gas-turbine is king, or IC engines will win, but there are many places in the… Application
- Sporting competitions seem to be what we obsess over, frankly. So if we can put engineering, science, technology into a format of healthy, fun competition,… Accessible
- Whatever the marketplace, if talented people are given resources, they're going to keep driving us to having better, simpler, cheaper solutions to problems. Better
- The future is going to require really smart people. What we think are crises today probably will be no big deal, and we have no… Big
- Americans thinking that America will continue to lead the world in innovation and quality of life without some quick and serious educational improvements are dangerously… America
- Nothing that has value, real value, has no cost. Not freedom, not food, not shelter, not healthcare. Cost