I'd rather lose my own money than someone else's.
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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.Dean Kamen
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.
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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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If you're going to fail, you might as well fail at the big ones.
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