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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
Entrepreneur
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Photographer
Physicist
Bridgeport
Connecticut
Edwin Land
Edwin Herbert Land
E.H. Land
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An essential aspect of creativity is not being afraid to fail.
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Industry is best at the intersection of science and art.
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Science is a method to keep yourself from kidding yourself.
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I have long aspired to make our company a noble prototype of industry, penetrating in science, reliable in engineering, creative in aesthetics and wholesomely prosperous in economics.
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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 bottom line is in heaven!
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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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Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity.
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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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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 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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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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A mistake is a future benefit, the full value of which is yet to be realized.
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Do not do anything that anyone else can do readily.
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Politeness is the poison of collaboration.
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A mistake is an event, the full benefit of which has not yet been turned to your advantage.
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The world belongs to the articulate.
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