#mo

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

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

— Dean Kamen

#i #i think #important #important thing #life

One thing that took a while to really adjust to was, you do it for the the art, for the money, for being together and having a good time, but you do it for all those people out there who really care about the show. We are now talking about a show we did over 20 years ago. ↗

— Steve Kanaly

#adjust #ago #art #being #care

Most of the time you will fail, but you will also occasionally succeed. Those occasional successes make all the hard work and sacrifice worthwhile. ↗

— Dean Kamen

#fail #hard #hard work #make #most

How different this world to the one about which I used to read, and in which I used to live! This is one peopled by demons, phantoms, vampires, ghouls, boggarts, and nixies. Names of things of which I knew nothing are now so familiar that the creatures themselves appear to have real existence. The Arabian Nights are not more fantastic than our gospels; and Lempriere would have found ours a more marvelous world to catalog than the classical mythical to which he devoted his learning. Ours is a world of luprachaun and clurichaune, deev and cloolie, and through the maze of mystery I have to thread my painful way, now learning how to distinguish oufe from pooka, and nis from pixy; study long screeds upon the doings of effreets and dwergers, or decipher the dwaul of delirious monks who have made homunculi from refuse. Waking or sleeping, the image of some uncouth form is always present to me. What would I not give for a volume by the once despised 'A. L. O. E' or prosy Emma Worboise? Talk of the troubles of Winifred Bertram or Jane Eyre, what are they to mine? Talented authoresses do not seem to know that however terrible it may be to have as a neighbour a mad woman in a tower, it is much worse to have to live in a kitchen with a crocodile. This elementary fact has escaped the notice of writers of fiction; the re-statement of it has induced me to reconsider my decision as to the most longed-for book; my choice now is the Swiss Family Robinson. In it I have no doubt I should find how to make even the crocodile useful, or how to kill it, which would be still better. ("Mysterious Maisie") ↗

— Wirt Gerrare

#creature #crocodile #emma-jane-worboise #fae #faerie

To me, innovations are the wheel, fire, language, movable type. There are not 3 million innovations; there are 3 million inventions. ↗

— Dean Kamen

#innovations #inventions #language #me #million

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

Ten years before 'Matrix', ten years before 'Crouching Tiger' - I wanted to do a Hong Kong action movie. ↗

— Robert Mark Kamen

#action movie #before #hong #hong kong #i

We ought to have more women in various management positions, because women are the ones who decide almost everything in the home. ↗

— Ingvar Kamprad

#because #decide #everything #home #management

I knew that I could be more creative onstage, to state my own case and deliver my own interpretation of the role much more aggressively than in the recording studio. ↗

— Kiri Te Kanawa

#case #could #creative #deliver #i