Dean Kamen People Quotations

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.

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.

We have a promising project, but nothing of the Earth-shattering nature that people are conjuring up.

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

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

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

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

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.

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