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

- Dean Kamen

What really makes it an invention is that someone decides not to change the solution to a known problem, but to change the question.

- Dean Kamen

Tell me it's never been done. Because the only real laws in this world-the only things we really know-are the two postulates of relativity, the three…

- Dean Kamen

Sporting competitions seem to be what we obsess over, frankly. So if we can put engineering, science, technology into a format of healthy, fun compet…

- Dean Kamen

In the culture of America, in a free culture, you get what you celebrate. And in this culture, we have two obsessions, become a group that becomes a …

- 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…

- 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…

- Dean Kamen

Inspiration comes from the heart. The letter ‘I’ is the heart of F”I”RST… (F Inspiration R S T).

- Dean Kamen

I don't work on a project unless I believe that it will dramatically improve life for a bunch of people.

- Dean Kamen