[Quoting Abraham Lincoln, who said the patent system] adds fuel interest to the fire of genius, ... the patent system must appropriately reward innovation and risk.
"Dean L. Kamen" is an American entrepreneur and inventor from New Hampshire.
Born on Long Island, New York, he attended Worcester Polytechnic Institute, but dropped out before graduating after five years of private advanced research for the drug infusion pump AutoSyringe. He is the son of Jack Kamen, an illustrator for Mad (magazine)/Mad, Weird Science (comic)/Weird Science and other EC Comics publications.
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One of my biggest fears before we went public was, people would think of this as a toy, ... We think it's much more than that.
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.
We have a promising project, but nothing of the Earth-shattering nature that people are conjuring up.
I don't want to think about how many people have thought or still think that I'm crazy.
Fifty percent of the world's population now lives in cities, those are the people who need this, ... We still get around cities the way the Greeks did 5,000 years ago; they put on sandals, we put on sneakers.
It's got motors that do what your muscles do for you. It's got those tires that do what your feet do for you.
The city needs a car like a fish needs a bicycle.
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