Dean Kamen Quotes
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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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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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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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Some broad themes brought me where I am today. At a very young age, my hobby became thinking and finding connections.
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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.
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As a kid, I was less interested in the physical tinkering than thinking about what we would now call the physics, as opposed to the engineering.
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If history is any indication, all truths will eventually turn out to be false.
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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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My biggest failure is I have too many to talk about.
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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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I'd rather lose my own money than someone else's.
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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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More than ever, the world needs good engineers. However, the pool of talent is shrinking not growing.
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My father spent his entire early career as an illustrator for comic books: EC Comics like 'Tales from the Crypt' and 'Creepshow,' then moving on to such magazines as 'Mad' and 'Weird Science.'
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I'm a human entropy producer.
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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.
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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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I remember, as a kid, thinking more about, you know, watching the world go by and being amazed by how both complex but consistent and elegant it was. You know, why, you know, when you put that cold glass of water on the table, it kind of warms up at a very predictable way.
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Nobody expects that just because they've made computers better they're going to give them to you free.
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Clearly, there are many places where diesel is king or gas-turbine is king, or IC engines will win, but there are many places in the world where, as we've seen, they just won't do the job. The modern version of the Stirling engine has some very, very attractive characteristics, and we're trying to optimize it for some of those applications.
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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.
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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.
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You can make it out of Unobtainium!
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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.