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You try to be yourself, do only what you've always done and like to do, and right away, you're tagged as an oddball.


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DEAN KAMEN I think an education is not only important, it is the most important thing you can do with your life...
DEAN KAMEN The city needs a car like a fish needs a bicycle.
DEAN KAMEN More than ever, the world needs good engineers. However, the pool of talent is shrinking not growing...
DEAN KAMEN I do not want to waste any time. And if you are not working on important things, you are wasting tim...
DEAN KAMEN People take the longest possible paths, digress to numerous dead ends, and make all kinds of mistake...
DEAN KAMEN I'm a human entropy producer.
DEAN KAMEN Most of the time you will fail, but you will also occasionally succeed. Those occasional successes m...
DEAN KAMEN If people ridicule you, look them in the eye and say, 'Yeah, I may have failed, but at least I t...
DEAN KAMEN You have teenagers thinking they're going to make millions as NBA stars when that's not real...
DEAN KAMEN Nothing that has value, real value, has no cost. Not freedom, not food, not shelter, not healthcare.
DEAN KAMEN Nobody, man or woman, has ever wrecked a good marriage.
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