"In some cases, inventions prohibit innovation because we're……" — Dean Kamen
"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 to be important."
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41 Quotes by Dean Kamen
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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,…
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An innovation is one of those things that society looks at and says, if we make this part of the…
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I'd rather lose my own money than someone else's.
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I think an education is not only important, it is the most important thing you can do with your life.
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We are in a race between knowledge and catastrophe. If we keep track of what is important, never lower our…
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Tell me it's never been done. Because the only real laws in this world-the only things we really know-are the…
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Segway will be to the car what the car was to the horse and buggy.
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I think our society is no longer properly valuing the intangible potential of innovation, even if we have to be…
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My biggest failure is I have too many to talk about.
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It’s not what you do – it’s what you are becoming.
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Inspiration comes from the heart. The letter ‘I’ is the heart of F”I”RST… (F Inspiration R S T).
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To me, innovations are the wheel, fire, language, movable type. There are not 3 million innovations; there are 3 million…
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