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.
Dean KamenInvention 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.
Dean KamenWe live in a world where virtually everybody expects there's going to be some reasonable therapy for virtually any situation.
Dean KamenInspiration comes from the heart. The letter ‘I’ is the heart of F”I”RST… (F Inspiration R S T).
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