To me, innovations are the wheel, fire, language, movable type. There are not 3 million innovations; there are 3 million inventions.
Dean Kamen

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

I think an education is not only important, it is the most important thing you can do with your life.
Dean Kamen

Everybody has to be able to participate in a future that they want to live for. That's what technology can do.
Dean Kamen

An innovation is one of those things that society looks at and says, if we make this part of the way we live and work, it will change the way we live and work.
Dean Kamen

If you're going to fail, you might as well fail at the big ones.
Dean Kamen

A patent, or invention, is any assemblage of technologies or ideas that you can put together that nobody put together that way before. That's how the patent office defines it. That's an invention.
Dean Kamen

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.
Dean Kamen