Top 36 Quotes by Dean Kamen

About Dean Kamen

These are some quotes by American author Dean Kamen Inventor, who was born on April 5, 1951.

New ideas in technology are literally a dime-a-dozen, or cheaper than that.

New ideas in technology are literally a dime-a-dozen, or cheaper than that.

Dean Kamen

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

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

Dean Kamen

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.

Dean Kamen

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

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

Dean Kamen

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.

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

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

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

Dean Kamen

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

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

Dean Kamen

More than ever, the world needs good engineers. However, the pool of talent is shrinking not growing.

More than ever, the world needs good engineers. However, the pool of talent is shrinking not growing.

Dean Kamen

Whatever the marketplace, if talented people are given resources, they're going to keep driving us to having better, simpler, cheaper solutions to problems.

Whatever the marketplace, if talented people are given resources, they're going to keep driving us to having better, simpler, cheaper solutions to problems.

Dean Kamen

If you're going to fail, you might as well fail at the big ones.

If you're going to fail, you might as well fail at the big ones.

Dean Kamen

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