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Dean Kamen

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

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

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Donna Grant

"My passions have never jumped out of the fireplace and set fire to the carpet."

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Donna Grant

"I realized, when I saw the forest burning, how fascinating the firelight is. It's beautiful, and people stare at it, don't they? It destroys and kills people, but humans love it. Is it because they crave their own destruction, Sam? I want to understand your kind. I am going out into the wider world, and I must learn."

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Donna Grant

"Which painting in the National Gallery would I save if there was a fire? The one nearest the door of course."

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Donna Grant

"My theory on housework is, if the item doesn't multiply, smell, catch fire, or block the refrigerator door, let it be. No one else cares. Why should you?"

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Donna Grant

"What is emitted from the divine, though it be only like the reflection from the fire, still has the divine reality in itself, and one might almost ask what were the fire without glow, the sun without light, or the Creator without the creature?"

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Donna Grant

""Yes we can" always struck many as a naive and childish chant, like something ripped off from the Camp Fire Girls."

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Donna Grant

"I am not authorized to fire substitute teachers."

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Donna Grant

"The thornbush is the old obstacle in the road. It must catch fire if you want to go further."

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Donna Grant

"What medicines do not heal, the lance will; what the lance does not heal, fire will."

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Donna Grant

"O! for a muse of fire, that would ascend the brightest heaven of invention."

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Dean Kamen
"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."

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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."

Change

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

Money

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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."

Creativity

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Dean Kamen
"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."

Technology

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

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

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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."

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Dean Kamen
"Most of the time you will fail, but you will also occasionally succeed. Those occasional successes make all the hard work and sacrifice worthwhile."

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Dean Kamen
"If history is any indication, all truths will eventually turn out to be false."

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