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" 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. "
Dean Kamen
Little
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Flying
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" When I'm told absolutely no, it's a definite maybe. "
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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. "
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World
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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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" New ideas in technology are literally a dime-a-dozen, or cheaper than that. "
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New
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" The future is going to require really smart people. What we think are crises today probably will be no big deal, and we have no idea what will really be crises in the future. "
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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. "
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Time
Wind
" 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. "
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Healthcare
People
History
" Nobody expects that just because they've made computers better they're going to give them to you free. "
Dean Kamen
Computers
Nobody
You
" More than ever, the world needs good engineers. However, the pool of talent is shrinking not growing. "
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World
" My biggest failure is I have too many to talk about. "
Dean Kamen
About
Too
Talk
" I'm a human entropy producer. "
Dean Kamen
Producer
Entropy
Human
" Whatever the marketplace, if talented people are given resources, they're going to keep driving us to having better, simpler, cheaper solutions to problems. "
Dean Kamen
Better
Going
Problems
" Nothing that has value, real value, has no cost. Not freedom, not food, not shelter, not healthcare. "
Dean Kamen
Freedom
Food
Real
" I consider high-speed data transmission an invention that became a major innovation. It changed the way we all communicate. "
Dean Kamen
Way
Innovation
Major
" 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
Ideas
More
Live
" 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
Done
Big
Know
" To me, innovations are the wheel, fire, language, movable type. There are not 3 million innovations; there are 3 million inventions. "
Dean Kamen
Wheel
Language
Inventions
" Sometimes we crash and burn. It's better to do it in private. "
Dean Kamen
Burn
Better
Sometimes
" I do not want to waste any time. And if you are not working on important things, you are wasting time. "
Dean Kamen
Important
Time
Wasting Time
" 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. "
Dean Kamen
Society
Work
Change
" Everybody has to be able to participate in a future that they want to live for. That's what technology can do. "
Dean Kamen
Able
Want
Live
" 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. "
Dean Kamen
Fun
Technology
Science
" I don't want to think about how many people have thought or still think that I'm crazy. "
Dean Kamen
Want
Crazy
How
" 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.' "
Dean Kamen
Moving
Science
Father
" 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
" 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. "
Dean Kamen
Trying
Risks
Long
" 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. "
Dean Kamen
Need
Business
Passion
" I think an education is not only important, it is the most important thing you can do with your life. "
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Life
Think
You
" We all know about certain problems we wish we didn't have. "
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Problems
Certain
Know
" 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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People
Believe
I Believe