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Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity.

Edwin Land

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Edwin Land
Age: 81 †
Born: 1909
Born: May 7
Died: 1991
Died: March 1
Entrepreneur
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Photographer
Physicist
Bridgeport
Connecticut
Edwin Land
Edwin Herbert Land
E.H. Land
Cessation
Sudden
Stupidity
Creativity
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Our society is changing so rapidly that none of us can know what it is or where it is going.
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Science is a method to keep yourself from kidding yourself.
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Why do I want to believe what I believe?... Science, to put it somewhat vulgarly, is a technique to keep yourself from kidding yourself.
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Anything worth doing is worth doing to excess.
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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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There's a rule they don't teach you at the Harvard Business School. It is, if anything is worth doing, it's worth doing to excess.
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We live in a world changing so rapidly that what we mean frequently by common sense is doing the thing that would have been right last year.
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The first thing you do is teach the person to feel that the vision is very important and nearly impossible. That draws out the drive in the winner.
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Industry is best at the intersection of science and art.
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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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I believe each incoming freshman [in college] must be started at once on his own research project if we are to preserve his secret dream of greatness and make it come true.
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Politeness is the poison of collaboration.
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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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Someone is going to make your product obsolete. Make sure it's you.
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