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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
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I submit to you that when in each man the dream of personal greatness dies, democracy loses the real source of its future strength.
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The most important thing about power is to make sure you don't have to use it.
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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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Do not do anything that anyone else can do readily.
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Look, if the picture you get instantly is as beautiful as the picture you get by waiting seven days, then it is absolute madness to say that there is virtue in waiting.
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The world is like a fertile field that's waiting to be harvested. The seeds have been planted, and what I do is go out and help plant more seeds and harvest them.
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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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My motto is very personal and may not fit anyone else or any other company. It is: Don't do anything that someone else can do. Don't undertake a project unless it is manifestly important and nearly impossible.
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It's not that we need new ideas, but we need to stop having old ideas.
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