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

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
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Edwin Herbert Land
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In a few wretched buildings, we created a whole new industry with international significance.
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A mistake is a future benefit, the full value of which is yet to be realized.
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Science is a method to keep yourself from kidding yourself.
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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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