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Nobody complains that Bernini's sculptures are too darn real, right? Or that Norman Rockwell's paintings are too creepy. Well, robots can seem real and be loved, too. We're trying to make a new art medium out of robotics. David Hanson
Art Too Medium Complains Out Darn Seem Nobody New Well Make Robotics Robots Real Norman Trying Loved Sculptures Paintings Right Creepy
We hate those who will not take our advice, and despise them who do. David Sarnoff
Hate Will Advice Despise Our Those Take Them Who
Competition brings out the best in products and the worst in people. David Sarnoff
Best People Competition Worst Out Products Brings
Whatever course you have chosen for yourself, it will not be a chore but an adventure if you bring to it a sense of the glory of striving. David Sarnoff
You Yourself Will Whatever Sense Striving Adventure Course Glory Chore Chosen Bring
Man is still the greatest miracle and the greatest problem on this earth. David Sarnoff
Man Problem Earth Miracle Greatest Still
Success, in a generally accepted sense of the term, means the opportunity to experience and to realize to the maximum the forces that are within us. David Sarnoff
Success Experience Opportunity Sense Generally Term Forces Within Accepted Maximum Realize Us Means
What the human mind can conceive and believe it can accomplish. David Sarnoff
Mind Believe Conceive Accomplish Human Human Mind
I have learned to have more faith in the scientist than he does in himself. David Sarnoff
Faith More He Himself Learned Does Scientist Than
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
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