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If you want to move mountains, you just go move mountains. If you don't have a big enough shovel, you get some friends to help you. If you have the enthusiasm to charge ahead, you can do all sorts of things. Some things you can't do. You can't invent a perpetual motion machine. You've got to select your targets. But people can do so much more than they realize.

Paul MacCready

When you do dome up with a solution, you can always explain it logically, even though it's the absurd approach that gave you the solution.

Paul MacCready

Paul MacCready

Paul MacCready

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Born: September 25, 1925

Died: August 28, 2007 (aged 81)

Bio: Paul B. MacCready, Jr. was an American aeronautical engineer. He was the founder of AeroVironment and the designer of the human-powered aircraft that won the first Kremer prize.

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