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
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.
build capacity create cure environment found gives leave people pull technology
Technology is how we create wealth, how we cure diseases, how we'll build an environment that's sustainable and also gives people the capacity to pull more out of this world and still leave it better than when they found it.
earth nature people promising
We have a promising project, but nothing of the Earth-shattering nature that people are conjuring up.
crazy thinking people
I don't want to think about how many people have thought or still think that I'm crazy.
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
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.
moving fighting people
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
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.
believe people projects
I don't work on a project unless I believe that it will dramatically improve life for a bunch of people.
approach guide innovation realities rude serious somewhat
I don't know what innovation is, but I can give a guide to rude realities and somewhat serious suggestions about innovation and how to approach it.
crises future require smart today
The future is going to require really smart people. What we think are crises today probably will be no big deal, and we have no idea what will really be crises in the future.
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.
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.
producers entropy humans
I'm a human entropy producer.