Dean Kamen Quotes

• 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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  Topics in Technology

• 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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  Topics in Society, Work

• 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.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Percentage

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

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  Topics in Future

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

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Transmission

• 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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  Topics in Work

  Tags in Time, Important

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

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Crazy

• 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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  Topics in Life, Work

  Tags in People, Believe

• 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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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Realizing

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

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  Topics in Education, Life

  Tags in Important

• 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.

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  Topics in Technology

• I’m a human entropy producer.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Producer

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

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  Topics in History, Truth

• If you’re going to fail, you might as well fail at the big ones.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Fail

• 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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  Topics in Success, Work

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

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  Topics in Failure

• 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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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Energy

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

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  Topics in Technology

• 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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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Historians

• 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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  Topics in Age

  Tags in Think

Dean Kamen (27)

Birth:	5th April, 1951
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Entrepreneur, Inventor

About

Dean L. Kamen is an American entrepreneur and inventor from New Hampshire. Born in Long Island, New York, he attended Worcester Polytechnic Institute, but dropped out before graduating after five years of private advanced research for drug infusion pump AutoSyringe. He is the son of Jack Kamen, an illustrator for Mad, Weird Science and other EC Comics publications.

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