Dean Kamen

(20 votes)   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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(14 votes)   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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(11 votes)   I'm a human entropy producer.

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(9 votes)   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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(8 votes)   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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(8 votes)   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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(7 votes)   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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(7 votes)   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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(7 votes)   I think an education is not only important, it is the most important thing you can do with your life.

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(7 votes)   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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(6 votes)   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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(6 votes)   I don't want to think about how many people have thought or still think that I'm crazy.

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(6 votes)   I'd rather lose my own money than someone else's.

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(6 votes)   New ideas in technology are literally a dime-a-dozen, or cheaper than that.

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(5 votes)   If history is any indication, all truths will eventually turn out to be false.

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