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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
Thinking is my hobby. But sometimes you get to where you're stuck and you can't figure it out, so you just go work on another project. I always have multiple projects.
Dean Kamen
Work
You
Sometimes
Thinking
Project
Projects
Out
Stuck
Another
Always
Go
Get
Just
Hobby
Where
Figure
Multiple
You can't look at the problem and say, 'I want them to do more, better, faster miracles - and not invest in research, not invest in development, and have those miracles delivered to me free.' It's unrealistic.
Dean Kamen
Me
You
Problem
Better
Free
Miracles
Research
Faster
Say
Those
More
Unrealistic
Invest
Delivered
Development
Look
Want
Them
Nobody expects that just because they've made computers better they're going to give them to you free.
Dean Kamen
You
Better
Made
Free
Give
Computers
Nobody
Because
Expects
Going
Just
Just Because
Them
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
You
Big
Something
Never
Failed
Know
Because
Trying
Done
Often
Anything
Regretted
Really
Even
Things
As a kid, I was less interested in the physical tinkering than thinking about what we would now call the physics, as opposed to the engineering.
Dean Kamen
Physics
Engineering
Thinking
Kid
Would
Physical
About
Call
Opposed
Than
Tinkering
Interested
Less
Now
I remember, as a kid, thinking more about, you know, watching the world go by and being amazed by how both complex but consistent and elegant it was. You know, why, you know, when you put that cold glass of water on the table, it kind of warms up at a very predictable way.
Dean Kamen
You
World
Water
Remember
Thinking
Cold
Way
Consistent
Kid
Complex
Kind
Table
About
More
Both
Put
Glass
Know
How
Amazed
Go
Up
Very
Being
Predictable
Elegant
Why
Watching
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
Me
People
Problem
Advice
Way
Solution
Easy
Easy Way
Some
Somehow
Lots
Ask
Create
Found
Thing
It ain't ignorance that causes all the trouble in this world. It's the things people know that ain't so.
Edwin Armstrong
Ignorance
People
World
Trouble
Know
Causes
Things
I could never accept findings based almost exclusively on mathematics. It ain't ignorance that causes all the trouble in this world. It's the things people know that ain't so.
Edwin Armstrong
Mathematics
Ignorance
People
World
Trouble
Could
Never
Almost
Know
Accept
Causes
Based
Things
One of my primary objects is to form the tools so the tools themselves shall fashion the work and give to every part its just proportion.
Eli Whitney
Work
Fashion
Every
Tools
Give
Objects
Shall
Proportion
Part
Primary
Just
Form
Themselves
I can make just such ones if I had tools, and I could make tools if I had tools to make them with.
Eli Whitney
Tools
Could
Had
Make
Just
Them
I have always believed that I should have had no difficulty in causing my rights to be respected.
Eli Whitney
Respect
Rights
Difficulty
Respected
Had
Always
Causing
Should
Believed
The Cube is, at the same time, a symbol of simplicity and complexity.
Erno Rubik
Time
Simplicity
Complexity
Cube
Same
Same Time
Symbol
I was somewhat out of place among my classmates; I could not be as bohemian as they were.
Erno Rubik
Out
Classmates
Somewhat
Could
Were
Place
Bohemian
Among
If you find a solution with the Cube, it doesn't mean you find everything. It's only a starting point. You can work on and find something else: you can improve your solution, you can make it shorter, you can go deeper and deeper and collect knowledge and many other things.
Erno Rubik
Work
Knowledge
You
Other
Else
Everything
Collect
Solution
Find
Something
Something Else
Only
Point
Make
Cube
Go
Improve
Mean
Your
Many
Deeper
Things
Starting
Starting Point
When you are studying from a book, lots of people go straight to the end to look for the answers. But that's not my style. For me, the most enjoyable part is the puzzle, the process of solving, not the solution itself.
Erno Rubik
Me
You
Book
People
Style
Solution
Solving
Part
Puzzle
Studying
Look
Most
Answers
Go
Lots
End
Itself
Process
Straight
Enjoyable
The Cube is an imitation of life itself - or even an improvement on life.
Erno Rubik
Life
Imitation
Cube
Itself
Improvement
Even
I think creativity is a capability of human being. When we're born, we're - all of us has this capability. But part of us forget to use it.
Erno Rubik
Creativity
Human Being
Think
Born
Part
Forget
Human
Being
Capability
Us
Use
It was tremendously satisfying to watch this color parade.
Erno Rubik
Tremendously
Parade
Color
Satisfying
Watch
The problems of puzzles are very near the problems of life.
Erno Rubik
Life
Problems
Puzzles
Very
Near
Once I completed the Cube and demonstrated it to my students, I realized it was nearly impossible to put down.
Erno Rubik
Impossible
Down
Once
Completed
Students
Put
Cube
Realized
Nearly
Our whole life is solving puzzles.
Erno Rubik
Life
Our
Solving
Puzzles
Whole
I'm wondering how people are so creative, and how many things were born out of and inspired by the Cube.
Erno Rubik
Creative
People
Out
Born
Inspired
Cube
How
Were
Wondering
Many
Things
In my teaching, I enjoyed creating models to clearly communicate my thoughts.
Erno Rubik
Thoughts
Communication
Communicate
Clearly
Models
Creating
Teaching
Enjoyed
I did not plan to make the Cube.
Erno Rubik
Make
Cube
Did
Plan
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