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All Quotes by author - Dean Kamen

" Americans thinking that America will continue to lead the world in innovation and quality of life without some quick and serious educational improvements are dangerously delusional. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Don't be irresponsible in your risks, but as long as the project can fail without it causing the person to fail, keep trying; keep taking the best shots. Learn from them; pick yourself up. "

" Everybody has to be able to participate in a future that they want to live for. That's what technology can do. "

" Every once in a while, a new technology, an old problem, and a big idea turn into an innovation. "

" 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. "

" I consider high-speed data transmission an invention that became a major innovation. It changed the way we all communicate. "

" I do not want to waste any time. And if you are not working on important things, you are wasting time. "

" I don't want to think about how many people have thought or still think that I'm crazy. "

" I don't work on a project unless I believe that it will dramatically improve life for a bunch of people. "

" I'd rather lose my own money than someone else's. "

" If history is any indication, all truths will eventually turn out to be false. "

" 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. "

" If you're going to fail, you might as well fail at the big ones. "

" I'm a human entropy producer. "

" Innovation is so hard and so frustrating; it takes the intersections of people with courage, vision, and resources. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I think an education is not only important, it is the most important thing you can do with your life. "

" I've never had a business plan. Every project we've ever done was the intersection of somebody with a real need, a real passion to do something, and hustling. "

" 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. "

" I've spent quite a bit of time working on wind turbines and exploring control systems and photovoltaic and integration system. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" More than ever, the world needs good engineers. However, the pool of talent is shrinking not growing. "

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