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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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Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity.
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Do not do anything that anyone else can do readily.
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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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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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It's not that we need new ideas, but we need to stop having old ideas.
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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.
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The test of an invention is the power of an inventor to push it through in the face of staunch-not opposition, but indifference-in society.
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