Dean Kamen Quotes

Juggling many projects and having all these accidental collisions that you can't predict enables a kind of comparative thinking. To focus on a single project from beginning to end is extremely difficult, not just for me, but for many people.

If we ever have a problem, it's not comin' up with ideas. It's stoppin' us.

Creative ideas aren't like Jenga blocks, where they fall apart and you've got to start from scratch, though it can feel that way.

I usually have one project I'm focusing on but often have many other projects in the back of my mind for several years.

Creativity requires input, and that's what research is. You're gathering material with which to build.

Usually, the best ideas come from having to fix a really hard problem.

Openness explains the ability to innovate and come up with big ideas because you're open to them, and fluid intelligence explains the ability to go and execute.

I would consider myself an inventor at heart, or reinventor.

If you have a great day at work and you've been hit with all these great ideas and there's a lot of excitement on your team, your mind doesn't turn off. For years I've kept a pad of paper and pen by me at night, because things just occur to you.

Creative thinking - in terms of idea creativity - is not a mystical talent. It is a skill that can be practised and nurtured.

When you have an employee who's innovative in your organization, what are they thinking about in the shower? If they're working in an exciting place, they're not thinking what they're going to do over the weekend. They're thinking: 'How do I solve that problem?'

For one person who is blessed with the power of invention, many will always be found who have the capacity of applying principles.

We are all innovators, we all like to use our imagination, which is our greatest tool.

My imagination ran 24/7, and to me, every problem was a challenge to solve and new product to create. It wasn't until I started teaching that I realized that not everyone's head worked the same way.

You have to draw on a fair amount of experience in order to be able to put ideas together.

I need to be creative all the time.

I'll stop when I run out of ideas.

The imagination is how things get done. You have to cultivate creativity.

The person with just one good idea is a thousand times better off than the person with no good ideas.

[...] beer results in ideas, which results in new code.

My mind contains many good ideas, but it's not always easy to squeeze one out.

I'm not a craftsman of graphics or art or film. I'm more of an idea generator and manufacturer.

Creativity and business acumen don't always go hand in hand.

When you have a creative mind it doesn't stop going.

Some of the projects we've proposed over the years have been refused. But we never do other people's ideas; our ideas come out of our two hearts and our two heads.