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Profundity and originality are attributes of single, if not singular, minds.
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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A mistake is a future benefit, the full value of which is yet to be realized.
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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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We took nothing from anybody. We gave a great deal to the world. The only thing keeping us alive is our brilliance. The only thing that keeps our brilliance alive is our patents.
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The world belongs to the articulate.
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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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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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We can be dramatic, even theatrical we can be persuasive but the message we are telling must be true.
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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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Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity.
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Work only on problems that are manifestly important and seem to be nearly impossible to solve. That way you will have a natural market for your product and no competition.
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