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Dean Kamen

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

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

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"I'd rather lose my own money than someone else's."
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"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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"My biggest worry is I'm running out of time and energy. Thirty years ago I thought 10 years was a really long time."
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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."
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"The city needs a car like a fish needs a bicycle."
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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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"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."
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"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."
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"New ideas in technology are literally a dime-a-dozen, or cheaper than that."
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