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An essential aspect of creativity is not being afraid to fail.
Edwin Land
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Edwin Land
Age: 81 †
Born: 1909
Born: May 7
Died: 1991
Died: March 1
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Bridgeport
Connecticut
Edwin Land
Edwin Herbert Land
E.H. Land
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A significant inventionmust be startling, unexpected. It must come to a world that is not prepared for it.
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I believe that each young person is different from any other who has ever lived, as different as his fingerprints: that he could bring to the world a wonderful and special way of solving unsolved problems, that in his special way, he can be great.
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It is a curious property of research activity that after the problem has been solved the solution seems obvious.
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The world belongs to the articulate.
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I believe quite simply that the small company of the future will be as much a research organization as it is a manufacturing company.
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Over the years, I have learned that every significant invention has several characteristics. By definition it must be startling, unexpected, and must come into a world that is not prepared for it. If the world were prepared for it, it would not be much of an invention.
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Science is a method to keep yourself from kidding yourself.
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It is a curious property of research activity that after the problem has been solved the solution seems obvious. This is true not only for those who have not previously been acquainted with the problem, but also for those who have worked over it for years.
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The test of an invention is the power of an inventor to push it through in the face of staunch-not opposition, but indifference-in society.
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We took nothing from anybody. We gave a great deal to the world. The only thing keeping us alive is our brilliance. The only thing that keeps our brilliance alive is our patents.
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The future may require not so much having a new idea as stopping having an old idea.
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An invention that is quickly accepted will turn out to be a rather trivial alteration of something that has already existed.
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Profundity and originality are attributes of single, if not singular, minds.
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Don't do anything that someone else can do.
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