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
earth nature people promising
We have a promising project, but nothing of the Earth-shattering nature that people are conjuring up.
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.
thinking age today
Some broad themes brought me where I am today. At a very young age, my hobby became thinking and finding connections.
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.
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.
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.
shrinking world growing
More than ever, the world needs good engineers. However, the pool of talent is shrinking not growing.
trying matter waste
Life is so short. Why waste a single day of it doing something that doesn't matter, that doesn't try to do something big?
feet muscles tires
It's got motors that do what your muscles do for you. It's got those tires that do what your feet do for you.
human
This is the world's first self-balancing human transporter,
instill passion pursue science tools work
It's up to you to work with them to make it interesting for them to want to pursue engineering. You need to instill the passion for tools and science, as much as they now have for nonsense.
innovation way looks
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.
hard-work sacrifice succeed
Most of the time you will fail, but you will also occasionally succeed. Those occasional successes make all the hard work and sacrifice worthwhile.
cities car needs
The city needs a car like a fish needs a bicycle.