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I've never regretted anything I've done, even the things that I've failed at. I've often regretted not trying something really big, because you'll never know.
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I've never had a business plan. Every project we've ever done was the intersection of somebody with a real need, a real passion to do something, and hustling.
Dean Kamen
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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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When I'm told absolutely no, it's a definite maybe.
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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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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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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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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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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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Nothing that has value, real value, has no cost. Not freedom, not food, not shelter, not healthcare.
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Every once in a while, a new technology, an old problem, and a big idea turn into an innovation.
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Innovation is so hard and so frustrating; it takes the intersections of people with courage, vision, and resources.
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If you're going to fail, you might as well fail at the big ones.
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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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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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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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The city needs a car like a fish needs a bicycle.
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New ideas in technology are literally a dime-a-dozen, or cheaper than that.
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I consider high-speed data transmission an invention that became a major innovation. It changed the way we all communicate.
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We all know about certain problems we wish we didn't have.
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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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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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If people ridicule you, look them in the eye and say, 'Yeah, I may have failed, but at least I tried,' and get on with it.
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Whatever the marketplace, if talented people are given resources, they're going to keep driving us to having better, simpler, cheaper solutions to problems.
Dean Kamen