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" 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. "
Dean Kamen
Questions
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" I'm a human entropy producer. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" I don't want to think about how many people have thought or still think that I'm crazy. "
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" My father spent his entire early career as an illustrator for comic books: EC Comics like 'Tales from the Crypt' and 'Creepshow,' then moving on to such magazines as 'Mad' and 'Weird Science.' "
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" 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. "
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Innovation
Fact
" 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. "
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Technology
World
" 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. "
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World
Know
Remember
" 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. "
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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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Life
Quality
" 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. "
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Me
World
Value
" 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. "
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Fun
Technology
Science
" My plane is a Premiere; it has very efficient gas turbine engines. It goes very fast on relatively little fuel. Flying has been my passion since I was a kid. "
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Little
Gas
Flying
" My biggest failure is I have too many to talk about. "
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About
Too
Talk
" 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. "
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Win
King
Job
" 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. "
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Done
Big
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" Everybody has to be able to participate in a future that they want to live for. That's what technology can do. "
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Able
Want
Live
" 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. "
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Ideas
More
Live
" 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. "
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Hurt
Yourself
Failure
" Sometimes we crash and burn. It's better to do it in private. "
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Burn
Better
Sometimes
" 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. "
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Me
Free
Better
" If history is any indication, all truths will eventually turn out to be false. "
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Any
Will
History
" Some broad themes brought me where I am today. At a very young age, my hobby became thinking and finding connections. "
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Age
Finding
Today
" Whatever the marketplace, if talented people are given resources, they're going to keep driving us to having better, simpler, cheaper solutions to problems. "
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Better
Going
Problems
" New ideas in technology are literally a dime-a-dozen, or cheaper than that. "
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New
Ideas
" I'd rather lose my own money than someone else's. "
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Someone
Money
" I do not want to waste any time. And if you are not working on important things, you are wasting time. "
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Time
Wasting Time
" I consider high-speed data transmission an invention that became a major innovation. It changed the way we all communicate. "
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Way
Innovation
Major
" 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. "
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People
Way
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