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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

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. ↗

— Dean Kamen

#innovation #live #looks #make #part

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

#capita #continue #each #ever #fighting

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

— Dean Kamen

#everybody #future #live #participate #technology

I consider high-speed data transmission an invention that became a major innovation. It changed the way we all communicate. ↗

— Dean Kamen

#changed #communicate #consider #data #high-speed

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

#because #cases #caught #fact #forget

We can't live any more in a world which is based on stuff and not ideas. If you want to live with the world of stuff, we're all doomed. ↗

— Dean Kamen

#based #doomed #ideas #live #more

The world is getting to be such a dangerous place, a man is lucky to get out of it alive. ↗

— W. C. Fields

#dangerous #dangerous place #get #getting #lucky

If there is such a thing as good leadership, it is to give a good example. I have to do so for all the Ikea employees. ↗

— Ingvar Kamprad

#example #give #good #good example #good leadership