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" 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
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" Nobody expects that just because they've made computers better they're going to give them to you free. "
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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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" 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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" 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. "
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" 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.' "
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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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" 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. "
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" New ideas in technology are literally a dime-a-dozen, or cheaper than that. "
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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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" The city needs a car like a fish needs a bicycle. "
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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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" 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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Today
" 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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Work
Change
" I think an education is not only important, it is the most important thing you can do with your life. "
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You
" I consider high-speed data transmission an invention that became a major innovation. It changed the way we all communicate. "
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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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Finding
Today
" I started realizing that I wasn't so dumb; rather, most people simply didn't know the answers to the questions that I was interested in-or they didn't care. "
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People
Know
" More than ever, the world needs good engineers. However, the pool of talent is shrinking not growing. "
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" 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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" My biggest failure is I have too many to talk about. "
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About
Too
Talk
" 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. "
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Need
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Passion
" 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. "
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Trying
Risks
Long
" 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. "
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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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Long
Thought
" 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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Learning
Education
Hard Work
" 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. "
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Hurt
Yourself
Failure
" 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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" 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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History
" 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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Work
Hard Work
Sacrifice
" 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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You
Always