Dean Kamen Quotes & Sayings (Page 3)

“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.”

“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.”

“I don't work on a project unless I believe that it will dramatically improve life for a bunch of people.”

“I don't want to think about how many people have thought or still think that I'm crazy.”

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

“I would argue that 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.”

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

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”