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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
Inventor
Photographer
Physicist
Bridgeport
Connecticut
Edwin Land
Edwin Herbert Land
E.H. Land
Cessation
Sudden
Stupidity
Creativity
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A mistake is a future benefit, the full value of which is yet to be realized.
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It only takes a day to change someone from an anti-intellectual to an intellectual by persuading him that he might be one!
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[A Polaroid camera] places before you a thing that is more of the thing than the thing was.
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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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You cannot separate the composition from the life of the moment. It is all one thing, to be decided in a split second while you're living through it.
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You always start with a fantasy. Part of the fantasy technique is to visualize something as perfect. Then with the experiments you work back from the fantasy to reality, hacking away at the components.
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Profundity and originality are attributes of single, if not singular, minds.
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An essential aspect of creativity is not being afraid to fail.
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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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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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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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I don't mind conducting the orchestra if I can play the violin.
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Politeness is the poison of collaboration.
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