Dean Kamen
Dean Kamen

Every once in a while, a new technology, an old problem, and a big idea turn into an innovation.

Dean Kamen
Dean Kamen

I've never regretted anything I've done, even the things that I've failed at. I've often regretted not trying something really big, because you'll never know.

Dean Kamen
Dean Kamen

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

Dean Kamen
Dean Kamen

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

Dean Kamen
Dean Kamen

My biggest worry is I'm running out of time and energy. Thirty years ago I thought 10 years was a really long time.

Dean Kamen
Dean Kamen

Nothing that has value, real value, has no cost. Not freedom, not food, not shelter, not healthcare.

Dean Kamen
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
Dean Kamen

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.

Dean Kamen
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
Dean Kamen

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.

Dean Kamen
Dean Kamen

I think an education is not only important, it is the most important thing you can do with your life.

Dean Kamen
Dean Kamen

I do not want to waste any time. And if you are not working on important things, you are wasting time.

Dean Kamen
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
Dean Kamen

Thinking is my hobby. But sometimes you get to where you're stuck and you can't figure it out, so you just go work on another project. I always have multiple projects.

Dean Kamen
Dean Kamen

When I'm told absolutely no, it's a definite maybe.

Dean Kamen
Dean Kamen

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

Dean Kamen
Dean Kamen

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.

Dean Kamen
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
Dean Kamen

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

Dean Kamen
Dean Kamen

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.