Quotes by 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.

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

New ideas in technology are literally a dime-a-dozen, or cheaper than that.

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.

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.

I’d rather lose my own money than someone else’s.

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

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

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

The city needs a car like a fish needs a bicycle.