"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
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"Everybody has to be able to participate in a future that they want to live for. That's what technology can do."
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"I'd rather lose my own money than someone else's."
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"I think an education is not only important, it is the most important thing you can do with your life."
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"The city needs a car like a fish needs a bicycle."
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"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."
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"It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might has well not have lived at all, in which case you have failed by default."
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"I've come to believe that all my past failure and frustration were actually laying the foundation for the understandings that have created the new level of living I now enjoy."
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"There is no failure except in no longer trying. There is no defeat except from within, no really insurmountable barrier save our own inherent weakness of purpose."
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"Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes."
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"If you're not failing every now and again, it's a sign you're not doing anything very innovative."
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"A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms agains himself. He makes his failure certain by himself being the first person to be convinced of it."
-Ambrose Bierce
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