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I've never regretted anything...

I've never regretted anything I've done, even the things that I've failed at. I've often regretted not trying something really big, because you'll never know.

Dean Kamen 73 quotes

The city needs a car like a f...

The city needs a car like a fish needs a bicycle.

Dean Kamen 73 quotes

An innovation is one of those...

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 and work.

Dean Kamen 73 quotes

I remember, as a kid, thinkin...

I remember, as a kid, thinking more about, you know, watching the world go by and being amazed by how both complex but consistent and elegant it was. You know, why, you know, when you put that cold glass of water on the table, it kind of warms up at a very predictable way.

Dean Kamen 73 quotes

Lots of people ask me for adv...

Lots of people ask me for advice as if I somehow have found some easy way to create a solution to a problem, and there's no such thing.

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My plane is a Premiere; it ha...

My plane is a Premiere; it has very efficient gas turbine engines. It goes very fast on relatively little fuel. Flying has been my passion since I was a kid.

Dean Kamen 73 quotes

As a kid, I was less interest...

As a kid, I was less interested in the physical tinkering than thinking about what we would now call the physics, as opposed to the engineering.

Dean Kamen 73 quotes

You have teenagers thinking t...

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 engineer is.

Dean Kamen 73 quotes

Technology is how we create w...

Technology is how we create wealth, how we cure diseases, how we'll build an environment that's sustainable and also gives people the capacity to pull more out of this world and still leave it better than when they found it.

Dean Kamen 73 quotes

As we move towards 8 or 10 bi...

As we move towards 8 or 10 billion people on the planet, there's a little less gold per capita. Each one of us will continue to be fighting over an ever smaller percentage of total resources. This is not a happy thought.

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We're working on ways to make...

We're working on ways to make potable water from polluted water, whether it has organics in it or salt from the ocean, at very low energy input.

Dean Kamen 73 quotes

People take the longest possi...

People take the longest possible paths, digress to numerous dead ends, and make all kinds of mistakes. Then historians come along and write summaries of this messy, nonlinear process and make it appear like a simple, straight line.

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Thinking is my hobby. But som...

Thinking is my hobby. But sometimes you get to where you're stuck and you can't figure it out, so you just go work on another project. I always have multiple projects.

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To me, innovations are the wh...

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

Dean Kamen 73 quotes

New ideas in technology are l...

New ideas in technology are literally a dime-a-dozen, or cheaper than that

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I consider high-speed data tr...

I consider high-speed data transmission an invention that became a major innovation. It changed the way we all communicate

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I think in our lifetime, that...

I think in our lifetime, that level of acceptance of "well, we couldn't do any better," won't be tolerated. We're going to start to see individual therapies customized for individual patients, and it's going to change the way people get healthcare.

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I think our society is no lon...

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.

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Kids are intimidated by the w...

Kids are intimidated by the way science and technology is presented. It's made, frankly, quite boring and it becomes part of a curriculum that chases particularly women and minorities away.

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Invention and entrepreneurshi...

Invention and entrepreneurship isn't about pure technology. Most people take whatever they see in front of them and relate it to something they understand. For at least ten years after Ford started building cars, people called them horseless carriages. It wasn't obvious to call it a car. They used to call the radio 'the wireless.' Innovation is much more about changing people and their perceptions and their attitudes and their willingness to accept change than it is about physics and engineering.

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Добрые, щедрые, великодушные: 6 советских актеров, которые были всеобщими любимчиками

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Советских актёров часто ставят в пример как образец духовной силы, национальной гордости и внутренней красоты. Они стали символами эпохи, носителями культуры и нравственности. Но, как известно, за кул...

Десять кинозвезд, которые отлично поют

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Актеры — люди творческие, но кто бы мог подумать, что некоторые из них скрывают прекрасный голос. В эпоху раннего Голливуда актеров с музыкальными способностями было немало — это считалось скорее норм...

Мэрилин Монро, Ким Кардашьян и другие

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Неузнаваемая Ким Кардашьян в объективе фотографа Маркуса Клинко, 2009 год. Памела Андерсон в самой первой съёмке для журнала «Playboy», 1990. На фото голливудская актриса Dorothy Lamour и шимпанзе Джи...

Что стало с детьми-звездами: Рэдклифф и компания спустя годы

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Расскажем, как сложилась судьба актеров, которые начинали сниматься еще в детстве.
Остаться на вершине в Голливуде удаётся не каждому, особенно если путь начался в детстве. Одни актёры теряются из-за...

Жизнь за границей: как изменились судьбы 7 уехавших телеведущих

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Два года назад отечественное телевидение столкнулось с беспрецедентной кадровой тектоникой — целая группа ярких и узнаваемых ведущих стремительно исчезла с экранов федеральных каналов. Эти лица долгие...

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Кира Найтли на страницах журнала к выходу фильма «Пиджак», 2005. Следы динозавра, раскопанные в русле реки Палакси. Техас. США. 1952г. Самая большая женщина рядом с самым маленьким мужчиной, 1922 год....