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" 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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" 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. "

Dean Kamen

Innovation

Life

Quality

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

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

" The city needs a car like a fish needs a bicycle. "

" 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

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. "

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

" Most of the time you will fail, but you will also occasionally succeed. Those occasional successes make all the hard work and sacrifice worthwhile. "

" Sometimes we crash and burn. It's better to do it in private. "

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

" You have teenagers thinking they're going to make millions as NBA stars when that's not realistic for even 1 percent of them. Becoming a scientist or engineer is. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

" 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

World

Value

" New ideas in technology are literally a dime-a-dozen, or cheaper than that. "

" Whatever the marketplace, if talented people are given resources, they're going to keep driving us to having better, simpler, cheaper solutions to problems. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

Dean Kamen

Talent

World