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If history is any indication, all truths will eventually turn out to be false.
Dean Kamen
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I do not want to waste any time. And if you are not working on important things, you are wasting time.
Dean Kamen
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My biggest worry is I'm running out of time and energy. Thirty years ago I thought 10 years was a really long time.
Dean Kamen
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Everybody has to be able to participate in a future that they want to live for. That's what technology can do.
Dean Kamen
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I don't work on a project unless I believe that it will dramatically improve life for a bunch of people.
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Some broad themes brought me where I am today. At a very young age, my hobby became thinking and finding connections.
Dean Kamen
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We can't live any more in a world which is based on stuff and not ideas. If you want to live with the world of stuff, we're all doomed.
Dean Kamen
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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.
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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.
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I don't want to think about how many people have thought or still think that I'm crazy.
Dean Kamen
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New ideas in technology are literally a dime-a-dozen, or cheaper than that.
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