Dean Kamen quotes

I'd rather lose my own money than someone else's.

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

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.

Innovation is so hard and so frustrating; it takes the intersections of people with courage, vision, and resources.

Nobody expects that just because they've made computers better they're going to give them to you free.

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

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 read it again. You break a pencil and read it again.

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.

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.

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.