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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.

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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Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity.
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It's not that we need new ideas, but we need to stop having old ideas.
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Anything worth doing is worth doing to excess.
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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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The most important thing about power is to make sure you don't have to use it.
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A mistake is a future benefit, the full value of which is yet to be realized.
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