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Dean Kamen
April 5, 1951 -
Nationality: American
Category: Inventor
Subcategory: American Inventor

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.

   

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

   

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

   

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

   

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

   

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.

   

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.

   

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.

   

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

   

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.

   

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

   

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

   

Some broad themes brought me where I am today. At a very young age, my hobby became thinking and finding connections.

   

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.

   

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.

   

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.

   

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.

   

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

   

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

   

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