Dean Kamen Quotes

When we began Qualcomm, it had become quite clear that it was very important to patent new ideas.

All good things which exist are the fruits of originality.

Lincoln said that the Patent Office adds the flame of interest to the light of creativity. And that is why we need to improve the effectiveness of our Patent Office.

To appropriate an invention, be it artistic or technical, you have to have at least a part of your spirit embracing it so radically that you somehow change.

We call ourselves creators and we just copy.

The reality is, is that we love competition, at Apple. We think it makes us all better. But we want people to invent their own stuff.

We believe that patents exist to reward the inventors of truly outstanding ideas, not to allow big businesses to stifle competition with an ever-growing tide of trivial, incomprehensible, overreaching patents. We will stop the abuse of patent law by raising the bar on how innovative an idea has to be before it can be patented, and by prohibiting patents on software, business methods, concepts and works of nature. We will require a working model to be provided to the patent office before a patent is granted and we will strictly enforce the current rule that patents are invalid if they are "obvious to someone skilled in the art".

I am not really an inventor. I just steal my ideas from 8-year olds.

Every new idea in any field needs protection.

I am not overly impressed by the great names and reputations of those who might be trying to beat me to an invention. It's their 'ideas' that appeal to me. I am quite correctly described as 'more of a sponge than an inventor

Invention presupposes imagination but should not be confused with it.

Great minds don't think alike. If they did, the Patent Office would only have about fifty inventions.

Every piece of technology, every piece of art, basically everything manmade comes from an idea.

It is with epigrams as with other inventions; the best ones annoy us because we didn't think of them ourselves.

We took nothing from anybody. We gave a great deal to the world. The only thing keeping us alive is our brilliance. The only thing that keeps our brilliance alive is our patents.

Invention is almost the only literary labour which blindness cannot obstruct.

At Linkabit, we put little effort and energy into patenting things.

Some of us have great original ideas and some of us depend on adaptations.

I don't think anybody came into the movie business to be unoriginal and plagiarising and not having an original idea in their brain.

Everything, at first, is an idea, a special creation.

What gets me excited is the original principle.

Nobody really invents anything that hasn't been done before.

Intellectual Ventures is a company that invests in invention.

Well, you might as well imitate your own program because if you don't, someone else will.

Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new at all.