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" 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. "
Dean Kamen
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" We all know about certain problems we wish we didn't have. "
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" A patent, or invention, is any assemblage of technologies or ideas that you can put together that nobody put together that way before. That's how the patent office defines it. That's an invention. "
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" 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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" 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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" 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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" 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. "
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" If history is any indication, all truths will eventually turn out to be false. "
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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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