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" 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. "

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" There is just so much stuff in the world that, to me, is devoid of any real substance, value, and content that I just try to make sure that I am working on things that matter. "

Dean Kamen

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" To me, innovations are the wheel, fire, language, movable type. There are not 3 million innovations; there are 3 million inventions. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Some broad themes brought me where I am today. At a very young age, my hobby became thinking and finding connections. "

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

" Sporting competitions seem to be what we obsess over, frankly. So if we can put engineering, science, technology into a format of healthy, fun competition, we can attract all sorts of kids that might not see the kind of activity we do as accessible or rewarding. "

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

" 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. "

" Nothing that has value, real value, has no cost. Not freedom, not food, not shelter, not healthcare. "

" When I'm told absolutely no, it's a definite maybe. "

" 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. "

" My biggest failure is I have too many to talk about. "

" Nobody expects that just because they've made computers better they're going to give them to you free. "

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

" I'm a human entropy producer. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" We can't live any more in a world which is based on stuff and not ideas. If you want to live with the world of stuff, we're all doomed. "

Dean Kamen

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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

Free

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

Dean Kamen

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World