"The city needs a car like a fish needs a bicycle."

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Source : "Giving transport back to the people". CNN Interview, www.cnn.com. July 4, 2005.

Dean Kamen

#Cities Quotes #Car Quotes #Needs Quotes

“Haiti itself was also photographed, some of the streets, some of the mountains, rivers, streams, etc. were photographed before talking with me about how I felt about Haiti. Then the camera went to our voodoo temple and saw a serious ceremony, a real ceremony.”
“I think it would be interesting to know about the Federal Reserve. I think we should audit the Federal Reserve. It's taxpayers money that is being used there”
“I am going to design... a Station after my own fancy; that is, with engineering roofs, etc.”
“The battle over the validity of evolution has been publicly posed as a scientific one. However, you will find little sign of it in scientific journals, where such quarrels as exist are over details, not the basic concept... Evolution has proved so useful as a paradigm for the origin and structure of life that it constitutes the foundation of the sciences of biology and medicine.”

Source : Victor J. Stenger (2003). “Has Science Found God?: The Latest Results in the Search for Purpose in the Universe”, Pyr Books
“Itâ€™s bound to be one hell of a steel wheelin, railroadin good timeâ€¦while the western country rolls by and the smoke rises blacker than musical notes pouring out of that stoked-up-and-chuggin iron chariot.”
“Motives reveal why we do what we do, which is actually more important to God than what we're doing.”
“I started off playing by ear, and being around a bunch of musicians and playing in the streets and in the different parades and, then, I got accepted to go to New Orleans Center for Creative Artists ... it's where Wynton Marsalis, Harry Connick, Jr. and all those guys went out.”
“If I had not some strength of will I would make a first class drunkard.”

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