#or

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

#appear #come #dead #ends #historians

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

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

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

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

If history is any indication, all truths will eventually turn out to be false. ↗

— Dean Kamen

#eventually #false #history #indication #out

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

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