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
thinking age today
Some broad themes brought me where I am today. At a very young age, my hobby became thinking and finding connections.
earth nature people promising
We have a promising project, but nothing of the Earth-shattering nature that people are conjuring up.
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.'
fire innovation wheels
To me, innovations are the wheel, fire, language, movable type. There are not 3 million innovations; there are 3 million inventions
crazy thinking people
I don't want to think about how many people have thought or still think that I'm crazy.
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.
data innovation way
I consider high-speed data transmission an invention that became a major innovation. It changed the way we all communicate
people dumb answers
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
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.
inspirational stars teenage
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.
My biggest failure is I have too many to talk about.
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.
horse car
Segway will be to the car what the car was to the horse and buggy.
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.