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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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" We all know about certain problems we wish we didn't have. "
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" My biggest failure is I have too many to talk about. "
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" 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. "
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" My biggest worry is I'm running out of time and energy. Thirty years ago I thought 10 years was a really long time. "
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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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" 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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" 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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" Nothing that has value, real value, has no cost. Not freedom, not food, not shelter, not healthcare. "
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" 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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" 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. "
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" 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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" Most of the time you will fail, but you will also occasionally succeed. Those occasional successes make all the hard work and sacrifice worthwhile. "
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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. "
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" 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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" I don't work on a project unless I believe that it will dramatically improve life for a bunch of people. "
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