Dean Kamen
Dean Kamen
Dean L. Kamenis an American entrepreneur and inventor...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionEntrepreneur
Date of Birth5 April 1951
CityRockville Centre, NY
CountryUnited States of America
real shelter cost
Nothing that has value, real value, has no cost. Not freedom, not food, not shelter, not healthcare.
technology innovation important
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.
celebrate free-society
In a free society, you get what you celebrate
believe people projects
I don't work on a project unless I believe that it will dramatically improve life for a bunch of people.
adventure frustration reality
The word entrepreneur is associated with success and adventure. From my life, the only thing I can tell you that's consistently associated with entrepreneurship is failure, and the only thing consistently associated with invention is frustration. There is a long road between the idea and the reality.
attitude technology engineering
Invention and entrepreneurship isn't about pure technology. Most people take whatever they see in front of them and relate it to something they understand. For at least ten years after Ford started building cars, people called them horseless carriages. It wasn't obvious to call it a car. They used to call the radio 'the wireless.' Innovation is much more about changing people and their perceptions and their attitudes and their willingness to accept change than it is about physics and engineering.
ideas want stuff
We cant live any more in a world which is based on stuff and not ideas. If you want to live with the world of stuff, were all doomed.
fate race track
We are in a race between knowledge and catastrophe. If we keep track of what is important, never lower our standards or forget why we are here, we have the ability to determine the fate of the world.
moving fighting people
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
technology years wife
[Chuck's wife] was standing behind me at the time and she said, 'Chuck hasn't fed himself in 19 years. So, you've got a choice: We keep the arm, or you keep Chuck.'
people driving problem
Whatever the marketplace, if talented people are given resources, they're going to keep driving us to having better, simpler, cheaper solutions to problems.
fun kids technology
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.
horse car
Segway will be to the car what the car was to the horse and buggy.
thinking dust risk
I think our society is no longer properly valuing the intangible potential of innovation, even if we have to be a little uncomfortable with the risks associated with it, and a little bit willing to fail, pick ourselves up and dust ourselves off and try again. We don’t seem to want to do that as much as we used too.