Quotes of Dean Kamen - somelinesforyou

“ If history is any indication, all truths will eventually turn out to be false. ”

- Dean Kamen

“ I don't work on a project unless I believe that it will dramatically improve life for a bunch of people. ”

- Dean Kamen

“ If history is any indication, all truths will eventually turn out to be false. ”

- Dean Kamen

“ 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. ”

- Dean Kamen

“ Sometimes we crash and burn. It's better to do it in private. ”

- Dean Kamen

“ The city needs a car like a fish needs a bicycle. ”

- Dean Kamen

“ The goal is to create in the culture passion among kids to do something. I think the trouble is our culture does create a passion for kids, but their passion is related to one of two industries: entertainment or sports. ”

- Dean Kamen

“ 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. ”

- Dean Kamen

“ I don't know what innovation is, but I can give a guide to rude realities and somewhat serious suggestions about innovation and how to approach it. ”

- Dean Kamen

“ I'm a human entropy producer. ”

- Dean Kamen

“ I don't know what innovation is, but I can give a guide to rude realities and somewhat serious suggestions about innovation and how to approach it. ”

- Dean Kamen

“ If you're going to fail, you might as well fail at the big ones. ”

- Dean Kamen

“ I don't work on a project unless I believe that it will dramatically improve life for a bunch of people. ”

- Dean Kamen

“ Everybody has to be able to participate in a future that they want to live for. That's what technology can do. ”

- Dean Kamen

“ 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. ”

- Dean Kamen

“ 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. ”

- Dean Kamen

“ New ideas in technology are literally a dime-a-dozen, or cheaper than that. ”

- Dean Kamen

“ Sometimes we crash and burn. It's better to do it in private. ”

- Dean Kamen

“ 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. ”

- Dean Kamen

“ If you're going to fail, you might as well fail at the big ones. ”

- Dean Kamen

“ Sometimes we crash and burn. It's better to do it in private. ”

- Dean Kamen

“ Fifty percent of the world's population now lives in cities, those are the people who need this,... We still get around cities the way the Greeks did 5,000 years ago; they put on sandals, we put on sneakers. ”

- Dean Kamen

“ I don't work on a project unless I believe that it will dramatically improve life for a bunch of people. ”

- Dean Kamen

“ I don't know what innovation is, but I can give a guide to rude realities and somewhat serious suggestions about innovation and how to approach it. ”

- Dean Kamen

“ Everybody has to be able to participate in a future that they want to live for. That's what technology can do. ”

- Dean Kamen

“ I don't know what innovation is, but I can give a guide to rude realities and somewhat serious suggestions about innovation and how to approach it. ”

- Dean Kamen

“ To me, innovations are the wheel, fire, language, movable type. There are not 3 million innovations; there are 3 million inventions. ”

- Dean Kamen

“ Most of the time you will fail, but you will also occasionally succeed. Those occasional successes make all the hard work and sacrifice worthwhile. ”

- Dean Kamen

“ To me, innovations are the wheel, fire, language, movable type. There are not 3 million innovations; there are 3 million inventions. ”

- Dean Kamen

“ It's up to you to work with them to make it interesting for them to want to pursue engineering. You need to instill the passion for tools and science, as much as they now have for nonsense. ”

- Dean Kamen
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