About Dean Kamen: Dean L. Kamen is an American entrepreneur and inventor from New Hampshire.
Some broad themes brought me where I am today. At a very young age, my hobby became thinking and finding connections.
Nothing that has value, real value, has no cost. Not freedom, not food, not shelter, not healthcare.
My biggest failure is I have too many to talk about.
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.
If history is any indication, all truths will eventually turn out to be false.
The city needs a car like a fish needs a bicycle.
I think an education is not only important, it is the most important thing you can do with your life.
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 r...
More than ever, the world needs good engineers. However, the pool of talent is shrinking not growing.
Everybody has to be able to participate in a future that they want to live for. That's what technology can do.
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.
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.
I don't want to think about how many people have thought or still think that I'm crazy.
I'm a human entropy producer.
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.
Sometimes we crash and burn. It's better to do it in private.
If you're going to fail, you might as well fail at the big ones.
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.
I consider high-speed data transmission an invention that became a major innovation. It changed the way we all communicate.
