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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
Entrepreneur
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Bridgeport
Connecticut
Edwin Land
Edwin Herbert Land
E.H. Land
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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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An invention that is quickly accepted will turn out to be a rather trivial alteration of something that has already existed.
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The bottom line is in heaven!
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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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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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A mistake is an event, the full benefit of which has not yet been turned to your advantage.
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Don't do anything that someone else can do.
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The future may require not so much having a new idea as stopping having an old idea.
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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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Colour is always a consequence, never a cause.
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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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Someone is going to make your product obsolete. Make sure it's you.
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I don't mind conducting the orchestra if I can play the violin.
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Over the years, I have learned that every significant invention has several characteristics. By definition it must be startling, unexpected, and must come into a world that is not prepared for it. If the world were prepared for it, it would not be much of an invention.
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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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In a few wretched buildings, we created a whole new industry with international significance.
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There's a rule they don't teach you at the Harvard Business School. It is, if anything is worth doing, it's worth doing to excess.
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Marketing is what you do when your product is no good.
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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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Anything worth doing is worth doing to excess.
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