110 Quotes by Dean Kamen

I don’t want to think about how many people have thought or still think that I’m crazy.

My biggest worry is I’m running out of time and energy. Thirty years ago I thought 10 years was a really long time.

Kids are intimidated by the way science and technology is presented. It’s made, frankly, quite boring and it becomes part of a curriculum that chases particularly women and minorities away.

You have teenagers thinking they’re going to make millions as NBA stars when that’s not realistic for even 1 percent of them. Becoming a scientist or engineer is.

Sometimes we crash and burn. It’s better to do it in private.

I consider high-speed data transmission an invention that became a major innovation. It changed the way we all communicate.

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.

Whatever the marketplace, if talented people are given resources, they’re going to keep driving us to having better, simpler, cheaper solutions to problems.