Dean Kamen

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

— Dean Kamen

#burn #crash #private #sometimes

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

— Dean Kamen

#i #i do #important #important things #things

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

— Dean Kamen

#else #i #lose #my own #own

I don't want to think about how many people have thought or still think that I'm crazy. ↗

— Dean Kamen

#crazy #how #i #many #people

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

— Dean Kamen

#bunch #dramatically #i #i believe #i believe that

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

#care #dumb #i #interested #know

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

— Dean Kamen

#car #city #fish #like #needs

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

#any #content #devoid #i #i am

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

#assemblage #before #defines #how #ideas

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

#becoming #engineer #even #going #make