Dean Kamen

“I would argue that education, actual learning - it is hard work. It's very personal. Your parents don't teach you anything. Your teachers don't teach you anything. The government doesn't tea...”

“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...”

“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.”

“I've never regretted anything I've done, even the things that I've failed at. I've often regretted not trying something really big, because you'll never know.”

“If people ridicule you, look them in the eye and say, 'Yeah, I may have failed, but at least I tried,' and get on with it.”

“As a kid, I was less interested in the physical tinkering than thinking about what we would now call the physics, as opposed to the engineering.”

“I do not want to waste any time. And if you are not working on important things, you are wasting time.”