110 Quotes by Dean Kamen

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.

I've never had a business plan. Every project we've ever done was the intersection of somebody with a real need, a real passion to do something, and hustling.

We're working on ways to make potable water from polluted water, whether it has organics in it or salt from the ocean, at very low energy input.

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.

Thinking is my hobby. But sometimes you get to where you're stuck and you can't figure it out, so you just go work on another project. I always have multiple projects.

I've spent quite a bit of time working on wind turbines and exploring control systems and photovoltaic and integration system.

Nobody expects that just because they've made computers better they're going to give them to you free.

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.'

If people ridicule you, look them in the eye and say, 'Yeah, I may have failed, but at least I tried,' and get on with it.