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" 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

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

" 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.' "

" We all know about certain problems we wish we didn't have. "

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

" As we move towards 8 or 10 billion people on the planet, there's a little less gold per capita. Each one of us will continue to be fighting over an ever smaller percentage of total resources. This is not a happy thought. "

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

" My biggest worry is I'm running out of time and energy. Thirty years ago I thought 10 years was a really long time. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

" I'm a human entropy producer. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I consider high-speed data transmission an invention that became a major innovation. It changed the way we all communicate. "