Long Quotes: Dean Kamen

August 30th, 02010 by Tyler Emerson

Quotes related to long-term thinking. A new series. Have a favorite quote? Share it with us in comments.

“I think our society is no longer properly valuing the intangible potential of innovation, even if we have to be a little uncomfortable with the risks associated with it, and a little bit willing to fail, pick ourselves up and dust ourselves off and try again. We don’t seem to want to do that as much as we used too.”
– Dean Kamen

This entry was posted on Monday, August 30th, 02010 at 10:00 am and is filed under Long-term quotes.

  • JackB

    “If our civilization would only realize what knowledge we have forgot and destroyed over the eons, this type of project would be the rule and not the exception.

    The only evidence of our existence 10,000 years will be the exceptional archival project, plastic and vulcanized rubber.”

    – Jack R. Bialik

  • Anreal Perception

    “The price of self-destiny is never cheap, and in certain situations it is unthinkable.
    But to achieve the marvelous, it is precisely the unthinkable that must be thought.”
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