American - Inventor | April 5, 1951 -
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.
Dean Kamen
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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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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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The city needs a car like a fish needs a bicycle.
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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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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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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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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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If history is any indication, all truths will eventually turn out to be false.
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If you're going to fail, you might as well fail at the big ones.
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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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I'm a human entropy producer.
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