Dean Kamen Quotes
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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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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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You can't look at the problem and say, 'I want them to do more, better, faster miracles - and not invest in research, not invest in development, and have those miracles delivered to me free.' It's unrealistic.
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Americans thinking that America will continue to lead the world in innovation and quality of life without some quick and serious educational improvements are dangerously delusional.
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My plane is a Premiere; it has very efficient gas turbine engines. It goes very fast on relatively little fuel. Flying has been my passion since I was a kid.
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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.
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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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We can't live any more in a world which is based on stuff and not ideas. If you want to live with the world of stuff, we're all doomed.