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
crazy thinking people
I don't want to think about how many people have thought or still think that I'm crazy.
thinking age today
Some broad themes brought me where I am today. At a very young age, my hobby became thinking and finding connections.
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.
thinking gdp healthcare
I think we have a society which is spending more and more of its money on healthcare as a percent of GDP as a percent of a lot of things. I think that's a measure of success.
acceptance thinking people
I think in our lifetime, that level of acceptance of "well, we couldn't do any better," won't be tolerated. We're going to start to see individual therapies customized for individual patients, and it's going to change the way people get healthcare.
educational thinking america
Americans thinking that America will continue to lead the world in innovation and quality of life without some quick and serious educational improvements are dangerously delusional.
thinking important important-things
I think an education is not only important, it is the most important thing you can do with your life.
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
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.