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I do not want to waste any time. And if you are not working on important things, you are wasting time.
- Dean Kamen
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If you're going to fail, you might as well fail at the big ones.
- Dean Kamen
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#Fail
#Going
#Might
#Well
I would argue that education, actual learning - it is hard work. It's very personal. Your parents don't teach you anything. Your teachers don't teach you anything. The government doesn't teach you anything. You read it. You don't understand it; you read it again. You break a pencil and read it again.
- Dean Kamen
#Education
#Government
#Learning
#Work
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 world where, as we've seen, they just won't do the job. The modern version of the Stirling engine has some very, very attractive characteristics, and we're trying to optimize it for some of those applications.
- Dean Kamen
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#King
#Trying
#Win
#World
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, it will change the way we live and work.
- Dean Kamen
#Change
#Innovation
#Live
#Society
#Work
Lots of people ask me for advice as if I somehow have found some easy way to create a solution to a problem, and there's no such thing.
- Dean Kamen
#Advice
#Easy
#Me
#People
#Way
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.
- Dean Kamen
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#Innovation
#Technology
#Up
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 didn't care.
- Dean Kamen
#Care
#Dumb
#Know
#People
#Questions
I think an education is not only important, it is the most important thing you can do with your life.
- Dean Kamen
#Education
#Important
#Life
#Only
#Your
Innovation is so hard and so frustrating; it takes the intersections of people with courage, vision, and resources.
- Dean Kamen
#Courage
#Innovation
#People
#Vision
Nobody expects that just because they've made computers better they're going to give them to you free.
- Dean Kamen
#Better
#Computers
#Free
#Going
#Nobody
I don't want to think about how many people have thought or still think that I'm crazy.
- Dean Kamen
#About
#Crazy
#People
#Thought
#Want
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 to be fighting over an ever smaller percentage of total resources. This is not a happy thought.
- Dean Kamen
#Fighting
#Gold
#Happy
#People
#Will
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 idea what will really be crises in the future.
- Dean Kamen
#Future
#People
#Smart
#Today
#Will
I consider high-speed data transmission an invention that became a major innovation. It changed the way we all communicate.
- Dean Kamen
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#Innovation
#Invention
#Major
#Way
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 the patent office defines it. That's an invention.
- Dean Kamen
#Ideas
#Invention
#Nobody
#Together
#Way
Nothing that has value, real value, has no cost. Not freedom, not food, not shelter, not healthcare.
- Dean Kamen
#Food
#Freedom
#Nothing
#Real
#Value
Everybody has to be able to participate in a future that they want to live for. That's what technology can do.
- Dean Kamen
#Able
#Future
#Live
#Technology
#Want
My biggest worry is I'm running out of time and energy. Thirty years ago I thought 10 years was a really long time.
- Dean Kamen
#Energy
#Long Time
#Long
#Time
#Worry
Most of the time you will fail, but you will also occasionally succeed. Those occasional successes make all the hard work and sacrifice worthwhile.
- Dean Kamen
#Hard Work
#Sacrifice
#Time
#Will
#Work
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 this messy, nonlinear process and make it appear like a simple, straight line.
- Dean Kamen
#Dead
#Mistakes
#People
#Process
#Simple
I'm a human entropy producer.
- Dean Kamen
#Entropy
#Human
#Producer
I've never regretted anything I've done, even the things that I've failed at. I've often regretted not trying something really big, because you'll never know.
- Dean Kamen
#Big
#Done
#Know
#Never
#Trying
If history is any indication, all truths will eventually turn out to be false.
- Dean Kamen
#Eventually
#False
#History
#Out
#Turn
#Will
My father spent his entire early career as an illustrator for comic books: EC Comics like 'Tales from the Crypt' and 'Creepshow,' then moving on to such magazines as 'Mad' and 'Weird Science.'
- Dean Kamen
#Father
#Mad
#Moving On
#Science
#Weird
I'd rather lose my own money than someone else's.
- Dean Kamen
#Lose
#Money
#My Own
#Own
#Someone
The city needs a car like a fish needs a bicycle.
- Dean Kamen
#Bicycle
#Car
#City
#Fish
#Needs
Every once in a while, a new technology, an old problem, and a big idea turn into an innovation.
- Dean Kamen
#Big
#Innovation
#New
#Old
#Technology
You have teenagers thinking they're going to make millions as NBA stars when that's not realistic for even 1 percent of them. Becoming a scientist or engineer is.
- Dean Kamen
#Engineer
#Going
#Percent
#Realistic
#Stars
#Teen
#Thinking
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