Dean Kamen Quotes
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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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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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Nobody expects that just because they've made computers better they're going to give them to you free.
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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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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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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.
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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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The city needs a car like a fish needs a bicycle.
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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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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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You can make it out of Unobtainium!
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When I'm told absolutely no, it's a definite maybe.
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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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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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New ideas in technology are literally a dime-a-dozen, or cheaper than that.
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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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Nothing that has value, real value, has no cost. Not freedom, not food, not shelter, not healthcare.
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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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We all know about certain problems we wish we didn't have.
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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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I've spent quite a bit of time working on wind turbines and exploring control systems and photovoltaic and integration system.
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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.