Dean Kamen Quotes

To innovate is not to reform.

A lot of technologies in the world were unusual in the beginning, and became standard. That's the beauty of bottom-up entrepreneurship and innovations.

Innovation never comes from the established institutions.

Don't underestimate the power of your vision to change the world. Whether that world is your office, your community, an industry or a global movement, you need to have a core belief that what you contribute can fundamentally change the paradigm or way of thinking about problems.

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.

In the old days, you would chastise people for reinventing the wheel. Now we beg, 'Oh, please, please reinvent the wheel.'

Innovation is doing something in a different way, but it also has a subtext: When there's an established way, and that way is considered the best practice and how it's traditionally been done, innovation comes by and says 'Let's try a different approach.' It doesn't need to be big or company-wide - it could be a single thing.

I want something completely new and different to happen, and lots of it. Stuff that makes us change the way we think about a market or the world. Something that inspires a new generation of crazy startups doing crazy things.

So I think the winners in recession are the people who produce new technology that does things better, which people really want.

My view is there's no bad time to innovate.

Once a new technology rolls over you, if you're not part of the steamroller, you're part of the road.

Disruption is a critical element of the evolution of technology - from the positive and negative aspects of disruption a typical pattern emerges, as new technologies come to market and subsequently take hold.

Digitization is certainly challenging the old ways of doing things, whether that's in publishing or politics. But it's not the end. In many ways, it is just the beginning.

Politics is the art of the possible; creativity is the art of the impossible.

If your goal is to change the world, you can't start by doing things the same old way because it sells better.

History has repeatedly shown that when a new method or material becomes available, new uses for it arise.

For any new technology there is always controversy and there always some fear associated with it. I think that's just the price of being first sometimes.

I'm interested in things that change the world or that affect the future and wondrous, new technology where you see it, and you're like, 'Wow, how did that even happen? How is that possible?'

There's nothing efficient about innovation.

When you innovate, you've got to be prepared for everyone telling you you're nuts.

I believe in being an innovator.

I am not afraid of new inventions.

What seems impossible today, may half a century hence have become commonplace.

If you want to really change something, do not try to fight the existing reality. create a new reality.

Innovation is a necessity.