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
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.
biggest fear fears people public
One of my biggest fears before we went public was, people would think of this as a toy, ... We think it's much more than that.
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.
important want waste
I do not want to waste any time. And if you are not working on important things, you are wasting time.
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?
shrinking world growing
More than ever, the world needs good engineers. However, the pool of talent is shrinking not growing.
thinking important important-things
I think an education is not only important, it is the most important thing you can do with your life.
teacher hard-work government
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.
jobs kings winning
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.
problem invention solutions
What really makes it an invention is that someone decides not to change the solution to a known problem, but to change the question.