Dean Kamen Quotes

As humans, we've always innovated our way out of problems, whether it was the first torch to light a dark cave or the steam engine that sparked a revolution.

It is very important to lead the field and innovate in game design.

I enjoy thinking about ways to create something that other people have not even thought about, something no one has managed to achieve.

I just invent, then wait until man comes around to needing what I've invented.

There are many men now living who were in the habit of using the age-old expression: 'It is as impossible as flying.' The discoveries in physical science, the triumphs in invention, attest the value of the process of trial and error. In large measure, these advances have been due to experimentation.

If people like Edison had waited to make every - or Ben Franklin or some of those people had waited to solve every problem on Earth before they did their research or before they were curious about doing something new, we'd never have made a lot of the progress we have.

I'm not an innovator.

The history of innovation is the story of ideas that seemed dumb at the time.

The way to solve problems in the world is to become scientists and technologists and build things that haven't been built before and discover things that people really don't know about.

Everybody's trying to repeat the past with the new network, with new devices and new tools. Why not make something brand-new?

When technology is ready for something novel, when the components needed to build something new become affordable, it is going to be done by someone and more likely by several people.

On the day he unveiled the Macintosh, a reporter from Popular Science asked Jobs what type of market research he had done. Jobs responded by scoffing, "Did Alexander Graham Bell do any market research before he invented the telephone?

Every time you think all the technology that had been created already, all you have to do is look around and then there's someone new who's born with a new idea.

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

I enjoy creating new ideas, working on new creative projects.

America demands invention and innovation to succeed.

Innovation, being avant garde, is always polemic.

It's definitely true that there are a lot of the devices we used on 'Star Trek,' that came out the imagination of the writers, and the creators that are actually in the world today.

At the end of the day, you want to be always the one that's one step ahead of everybody, and when it comes to hip-hop, culture and art, you want to be that signature guy.

To make any future that we dreamt up real requires creative scientists, engineers, and technologists to make it happen. If people are not within your midst who dream about tomorrow - with the capacity to bring tomorrow into the present - then the country might as well just recede back into the cave because that's where we're headed.

Since Mashable's inception, some of our most popular articles have focused on the science behind the world's coolest innovations.

To me, innovations are the wheel, fire, language, movable type. There are not 3 million innovations; there are 3 million inventions.

I think my imagination dictates the technologies I use. But at the same time, my imagination can be technologic. Sometimes I see a tool and I know immediately how to use it, but most of the time I use the tool for an idea I already have.

Americans understand that one of our great national strengths is innovation. Great innovators - Benjamin Franklin, Henry Ford, Thomas Edison, Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, and others - are household names.

We should have more invention.