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It's not that we need new ideas, but we need to stop having old ideas.

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Edwin Land
Age: 81 †
Born: 1909
Born: May 7
Died: 1991
Died: March 1
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Bridgeport
Connecticut
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The very essence of democracy is the absolute faith that while people must cooperate, the first function of democracy, its peculiar gift, is to develop each individual into everything that he might be.
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As I review the nature of the creative drive in the inventive scientists that have been around me, as well as in myself, I find the first event is an urge to make a significant intellectual contribution that can be tangible embodied in a product or process.
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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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In a few wretched buildings, we created a whole new industry with international significance.
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Profundity and originality are attributes of single, if not singular, minds.
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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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Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity.
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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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Science is a method to keep yourself from kidding yourself.
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Marketing is what you do when your product is no good.
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A premature attempt to explain something that thrills you will destroy your perceptivity rather than increase it, because your tendency will be to explain away rather than seek out.
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The world belongs to the articulate.
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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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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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A mistake is a future benefit, the full value of which is yet to be realized.
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Aladdin in his most intoxicated moments would never have dreamed of asking his [djinn] for [a polaroid] ... It's utterly new in concept and appearance, utilizing an utterly revolutionary flash system, an utterly revolutionary viewing system, utterly revolutionary electronics, and utterly revolutionary film structure.
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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 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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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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I don't mind conducting the orchestra if I can play the violin.
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