110 Quotes by Dean Kamen

People take the longest possible paths, digress to numerous dead ends, and make all kinds of mistakes. Then historians come along and write summaries of this messy, nonlinear process and make it appear like a simple, straight line.

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

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

The city needs a car like a fish needs a bicycle.

My biggest failure is I have too many to talk about.

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.

I don't work on a project unless I believe that it will dramatically improve life for a bunch of people.

New ideas in technology are literally a dime-a-dozen, or cheaper than that

I'd rather lose my own money than someone else's.