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? Dean Kamen More Quotes by Dean Kamen More Quotes From 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 technology office ideas If history is any indication, all truths will eventually turn out to be false. Dean Kamen indication turns ifs I don't want to think about how many people have thought or still think that I'm crazy. Dean Kamen crazy people thinking Nothing that has value, real value, has no cost. Not freedom, not food, not shelter, not healthcare. Dean Kamen shelter cost real 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 simple mistake writing Sometimes we crash and burn. It's better to do it in private. Dean Kamen crash sometimes In a free society, you get what you celebrate. Dean Kamen celebrate free-society Whatever the marketplace, if talented people are given resources, they're going to keep driving us to having better, simpler, cheaper solutions to problems. Dean Kamen driving problem people If you're going to fail, you might as well fail at the big ones. Dean Kamen failing bigs might 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 substance real trying 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. Dean Kamen educational america thinking Some broad themes brought me where I am today. At a very young age, my hobby became thinking and finding connections. Dean Kamen age today thinking I'm a human entropy producer. Dean Kamen entropy producers humans The word entrepreneur is associated with success and adventure. From my life, the only thing I can tell you that's consistently associated with entrepreneurship is failure, and the only thing consistently associated with invention is frustration. There is a long road between the idea and the reality. Dean Kamen frustration adventure reality I'd rather lose my own money than someone else's. Dean Kamen my-own loser money We live in a world where virtually everybody expects there's going to be some reasonable therapy for virtually any situation. Dean Kamen therapy situation world Invention and entrepreneurship isn't about pure technology. Most people take whatever they see in front of them and relate it to something they understand. For at least ten years after Ford started building cars, people called them horseless carriages. It wasn't obvious to call it a car. They used to call the radio 'the wireless.' Innovation is much more about changing people and their perceptions and their attitudes and their willingness to accept change than it is about physics and engineering. Dean Kamen technology attitude years I think we have a society which is spending more and more of its money on healthcare as a percent of GDP as a percent of a lot of things. I think that's a measure of success. Dean Kamen gdp healthcare thinking As we move towards 8 or 10 billion people on the planet, there's a little less gold per capita. Each one of us will continue to be fighting over an ever smaller percentage of total resources. This is not a happy thought Dean Kamen fighting people moving 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 worry running years
