Lots of people ask me for advice as if I somehow have found some easy way to create a solution to a problem, and there’s no such thing. Dean Kamen Read Quote
I remember, as a kid, thinking more about, you know, watching the world go by and being amazed by how both complex but consistent and elegant it was. You know, why, you know, when you put that cold glass of water on the table, it kind of warms up at a very predictable way. Dean Kamen Read Quote
As a kid, I was less interested in the physical tinkering than thinking about what we would now call the physics, as opposed to the engineering. Dean Kamen Read Quote
Get used to dealing with failure as long as it doesn’t hurt people around you, as long as it doesn’t hurt you physically, or it doesn’t hurt you so much that you can’t pick yourself up. Dean Kamen Read Quote
Our healthcare system has seen some of the greatest achievements of the human intellect since we started recording history: We’re developing incredible devices and implantables to improve the quantity and quality of people’s lives. Dean Kamen Read Quote
You can’t look at the problem and say, ‘I want them to do more, better, faster miracles – and not invest in research, not invest in development, and have those miracles delivered to me free.’ It’s unrealistic. Dean Kamen Read Quote
My father spent his entire early career as an illustrator for comic books: EC Comics like ‘Tales from the Crypt’ and ‘Creepshow,’ then moving on to such magazines as ‘Mad’ and ‘Weird Science.’ Dean Kamen Read Quote
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. Dean Kamen Read Quote
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. Dean Kamen Read Quote
