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Dean Kamen
Dean Kamen
American Inventor
Born: Apr 5, 1951
People Technology Thinking Will World You
Related authors: Charles Kettering Eli Whitney Orville Wright R. Buckminster Fuller Ray Kurzweil Samuel Morse Thomas A. Edison Wilbur Wright
Every once in a while, a new technology, an old problem, and a big idea turn into an innovation. Dean Kamen
Technology Innovation Problem Old Big Every Once Idea New Big Idea New Technology While Turn
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
Work Hard Work Time You Will Sacrifice Those Worthwhile Fail Most Also Make Occasional Occasionally Succeed Successes Hard
Innovation is so hard and so frustrating; it takes the intersections of people with courage, vision, and resources. Dean Kamen
Courage Innovation People Vision Resources Takes Frustrating Hard
The city needs a car like a fish needs a bicycle. Dean Kamen
Needs Car Bicycle City Like Fish
If you're going to fail, you might as well fail at the big ones. Dean Kamen
You Big Fail Well Big Ones Going Might
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
Work Education Hard Work Government You Learning Parents Pencil Would Argue Read Understand Very Personal Anything Break Again Teach Your Teachers Hard Actual
Our healthcare system has seen some of the greatest achievements of the human intellect since we started recording history: We're developing incredible devices and implantables to improve the quantity and quality of people's lives. Dean Kamen
History Quality People Seen Recording Incredible Our System Some Developing Since Devices Quantity Greatest Healthcare Intellect Improve Human Achievements Lives Started
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
People Simple Mistakes Numerous Possible Kinds Write Take Longest Along Come Like Dead Make Messy Nonlinear Line Historians Paths Ends Process Straight Straight Line Then Appear
Technology is how we create wealth, how we cure diseases, how we'll build an environment that's sustainable and also gives people the capacity to pull more out of this world and still leave it better than when they found it. Dean Kamen
Technology People World Wealth Better Build Out More Gives Environment Also How Still Leave Cure Than Diseases Sustainable Capacity Create Found Pull
Everybody has to be able to participate in a future that they want to live for. That's what technology can do. Dean Kamen
Future Technology Live Everybody Able Participate 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
Time Thought Long Long Time Energy Thirty Worry Out Out Of Time Running Years Years Ago Biggest Really Really Long Time
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
You Together Invention Before Way Defines Put Nobody Ideas How Office Patent Any Assemblage Technologies
Whatever the marketplace, if talented people are given resources, they're going to keep driving us to having better, simpler, cheaper solutions to problems. Dean Kamen
People Better Problems Whatever Resources Marketplace Solutions Given Having Simpler Driving Cheaper Talented Talented People Going Us Keep
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
You Engineer Realistic Stars Thinking Teen Teenagers Percent Make Becoming Scientist Going Them Even NBA Millions
Sometimes we crash and burn. It's better to do it in private. Dean Kamen
Better Sometimes Private Burn Crash
Get used to dealing with failure as long as it doesn't hurt people around you, as long as it doesn't hurt you physically, or it doesn't hurt you so much that you can't pick yourself up. Dean Kamen
Failure You Hurt Yourself People Long Physically Pick Around Dealing Up Get Much Used
If people ridicule you, look them in the eye and say, 'Yeah, I may have failed, but at least I tried,' and get on with it. Dean Kamen
You People Say Eye Tried Failed Look Least Yeah Get May Them Ridicule
Some broad themes brought me where I am today. At a very young age, my hobby became thinking and finding connections. Dean Kamen
Today Me Age Young Thinking Broad Finding Some Brought Became Am Very Hobby Young Age Where Themes Connections
We all know about certain problems we wish we didn't have. Dean Kamen
Problems Wish About Know Certain
I don't work on a project unless I believe that it will dramatically improve life for a bunch of people. Dean Kamen
Life Work People Will Believe Unless Dramatically Project Bunch Improve
New ideas in technology are literally a dime-a-dozen, or cheaper than that. Dean Kamen
Technology Cheaper New Ideas New Ideas Than Literally
I consider high-speed data transmission an invention that became a major innovation. It changed the way we all communicate. Dean Kamen
Innovation Communicate Invention Changed Consider Way Data High-Speed Major Became Transmission
I'd rather lose my own money than someone else's. Dean Kamen
Money Lose Own Else Someone My Own Rather Than
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
Happy People Will Thought Fighting Resources Total Per Percentage Smaller Towards Over Continue Move Gold Little Us Planet Less Billion Each Each One Ever
I've spent quite a bit of time working on wind turbines and exploring control systems and photovoltaic and integration system. Dean Kamen
Time Wind Control Spent Bit System Systems Integration Quite Quite A Bit Working Exploring
We're working on ways to make potable water from polluted water, whether it has organics in it or salt from the ocean, at very low energy input. Dean Kamen
Water Ocean Salt Energy Input Ways Make Very Polluted Whether Low Working
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