Dean Kamen Quotes

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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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  Hard Work, Sacrifice, Succeed

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• It’s not what you do – it’s what you are becoming.

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  Becoming

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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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  Life, Change, Work

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• Life is so short. Why waste a single day of it doing something that doesn't matter, that doesn't try to do something big?

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  Trying, Matter, Waste

  "Iconoclasts". Documentary, November 16, 2006.

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• Inspiration comes from the heart. The letter ‘I’ is the heart of F”I”RST… (F Inspiration R S T).

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  Inspiration, Heart, Letters

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• What really makes it an invention is that someone decides not to change the solution to a known problem, but to change the question.

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  Problem, Invention, Solutions

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• 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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  Technology, Want, Able

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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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  Believe, People, Projects

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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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  Inspirational, Stars, Teenage

  "Kamen: we need more geeks now" by Michaelle Delio, www.wired.com. March 25, 2002.

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

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  Thinking, Important, Can Do

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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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  Important, Want, Waste

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• Innovation needs to be nurtured throughout an organization. Management is doing things right, whereas leadership is doing the right things.

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  Organization, Innovation, Needs

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• We are in a race between knowledge and catastrophe. If we keep track of what is important, never lower our standards or forget why we are here, we have the ability to determine the fate of the world.

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  Fate, Race, Track

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• In the culture of America, in a free culture, you get what you celebrate. And in this culture, we have two obsessions, become a group that becomes a group that celebrates sports heroes and entertainment heroes. There's no room left for kids to see even a little bit of the opportunities to really, really get excited about becoming an inventor, an engineer, or a scientist, a problem solver.

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  Sports, Hero, Kids

  Big Think Interview, bigthink.com. June 9, 2009.

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• 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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  Teacher, Hard Work, Government

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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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  Fun, Kids, Technology

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• The city needs a car like a fish needs a bicycle.

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  Cities, Car, Needs

  "Giving transport back to the people". CNN Interview, www.cnn.com. July 4, 2005.

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• Tell me it's never been done. Because the only real laws in this world-the only things we really know-are the two postulates of relativity, the three laws of Newton, the four laws of thermodynamics, and Maxwell's equation-no, scratch that, the only things we really know are Maxwell's equations, the three laws of Newton, the two postulates of relativity, and the periodic table. That's all we know that's true. All the rest are man's laws

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  Real, Men, Law

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• More than ever, the world needs good engineers. However, the pool of talent is shrinking not growing.

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  Needs, Shrinking, World

  "Segway inventor on future technology - and why videogames aren't it". Interview With Mark Harris, www.theguardian.com. July 22, 2009.

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• Kids are intimidated by the way science and technology is presented. It's made, frankly, quite boring and it becomes part of a curriculum that chases particularly women and minorities away.

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  Kids, Technology, Minorities

  Big Think Interview, bigthink.com. June 9, 2009.

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• In a free society, you get what you celebrate.

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  Celebrate, Free Society

  "Science’s Vital Role In America’s Future" by Dean Kamen, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 24, 2011.

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• 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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  Technology, Ideas, Office

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

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  Might, Failing, Bigs

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

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  Turns, Indication, Ifs

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

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