“People take the longest possible paths, digress to numerous dead ends,...” — Dean Kamen Quote

“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.”

“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.”

“I think an education is not only important, it is the most important thing you can do with your life.”

“I'm learning along the way, and there's going to be some little bumps and bruises, but as long as I keep rolling with the punches, I will keep moving up.”

“I say luck is when an opportunity comes along and you're prepared for it.”

“There is no sense in meddling with the extinction of polar bears, not when so many more pressing human problems await. Until there's ironclad proof of how and why extinction works, and how much evil we've done to hasten it along, I'm going to save my emotional anguish for dying and suffering members of my own species.”