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Dean Kamen [1951-0] American

Rank: 101
Inventor, Entrepreneur

Dean L. Kamen is an American entrepreneur and inventor.
Born to a Jewish family in Long Island, New York, he attended Worcester Polytechnic Institute, but dropped out before graduating after five years of private advanced research for the drug infusion pump AutoSyringe.

Technology, Car, Education, Failure, Food, Freedom, Future, History, Learning, Money, Science, Sports, Teen

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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.		101
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.	Teen	102
If history is any indication, all truths will eventually turn out to be false.	History	103
I do not want to waste any time. And if you are not working on important things, you are wasting time.		104
More than ever, the world needs good engineers. However, the pool of talent is shrinking not growing.		105
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.	Science, Sports, Technology	106
I think an education is not only important, it is the most important thing you can do with your life.	Education	107
Everybody has to be able to participate in a future that they want to live for. That's what technology can do.	Future, Technology	108
To me, innovations are the wheel, fire, language, movable type. There are not 3 million innovations; there are 3 million inventions.		109
Nothing that has value, real value, has no cost. Not freedom, not food, not shelter, not healthcare.	Food, Freedom	110
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.		111
My biggest worry is I'm running out of time and energy. Thirty years ago I thought 10 years was a really long time.		112
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.		113
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.	Technology	114
Most of the time you will fail, but you will also occasionally succeed. Those occasional successes make all the hard work and sacrifice worthwhile.		115
New ideas in technology are literally a dime-a-dozen, or cheaper than that.	Technology	116
My biggest failure is I have too many to talk about.	Failure	117
The city needs a car like a fish needs a bicycle.	Car	118
I'd rather lose my own money than someone else's.	Money	119
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.		120
The future is going to require really smart people. What we think are crises today probably will be no big deal, and we have no idea what will really be crises in the future.		121
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.	Learning	122
I don't work on a project unless I believe that it will dramatically improve life for a bunch of people.		123
Whatever the marketplace, if talented people are given resources, they're going to keep driving us to having better, simpler, cheaper solutions to problems.		124
Technology is how we create wealth, how we cure diseases, how we'll build an environment that's sustainable and also gives people the capacity to pull more out of this world and still leave it better than when they found it.	Technology	125
I'm a human entropy producer.		126
Sometimes we crash and burn. It's better to do it in private.		201
Some broad themes brought me where I am today. At a very young age, my hobby became thinking and finding connections.		202
Americans thinking that America will continue to lead the world in innovation and quality of life without some quick and serious educational improvements are dangerously delusional.		203
Clearly, there are many places where diesel is king or gas-turbine is king, or IC engines will win, but there are many places in the world where, as we've seen, they just won't do the job. The modern version of the Stirling engine has some very, very attractive characteristics, and we're trying to optimize it for some of those applications.		204
I don't want to think about how many people have thought or still think that I'm crazy.		205
I consider high-speed data transmission an invention that became a major innovation. It changed the way we all communicate.		206
If you're going to fail, you might as well fail at the big ones.		207
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.		208
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.		209
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.		210

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