Dean Kamen Quotes

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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In Barack Obama, we have a great education president who is rebuilding America. His Race to the Top program is doing more to 'spur us' to improve our public schools than anything we've ever done as a nation.

Jim Hunt

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Programming is not a zero-sum game. Teaching something to a fellow programmer doesn't take it away from you. I'm happy to share what I can, because I'm in it for the love of programming.

John Carmack

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With the Mongolian horse warfare, I did a lot of research into the Mongol art of war.

John Fusco

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In principle, junk bonds are basically useful, but they are used excessively and irrationally, notably in takeovers.

Maurice Allais

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Advertising is totally unnecessary. Unless you hope to make money.

Jef I. Richards

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Strength is leading when you just don't want to lead.

Stanley A. McChrystal

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San Francisco is one of my favorite cities in the world.

Rosalynn Carter

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I have friends who've tried suicide many times and haven't succeeded. I myself made an attempt, so I had a connection with that sort of group of people who have tried suicide at one time in their lives.

Judy Collins

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I'm sort of in for a penny, in for a pound with Star Trek, It's my life at this point. To deny it would just be foolish.

Jonathan Frakes

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I'm going to stand up for what I need to do, not what everybody else wants me to do.

DeAngelo Williams

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What Americans want is more affordable health care.

Susan Collins

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If you see voters as rational, you'll be a terrible politician. People are not wired to be rational. Our brains simply evolved to keep us alive. Brains did not evolve to give us truth. Brains merely give us movies in our minds that keeps us sane and motivated. But none of it is rational or true, except maybe sometimes by coincidence.

Scott Adams

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