American - Inventor | April 5, 1951 -
Some broad themes brought me where I am today. At a very young age, my hobby became thinking and finding connections.
Dean Kamen
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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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Sporting competitions seem to be what we obsess over, frankly. So if we can put engineering, science, technology into a format of healthy, fun competition, we can attract all sorts of kids that might not see the kind of activity we do as accessible or rewarding.
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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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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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I don't want to think about how many people have thought or still think that I'm crazy.
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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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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.
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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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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.
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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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New ideas in technology are literally a dime-a-dozen, or cheaper than that.
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