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A significant inventionmust be startling, unexpected. It must come to a world that is not prepared for it.
Edwin Land
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Edwin Land
Age: 81 †
Born: 1909
Born: May 7
Died: 1991
Died: March 1
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Bridgeport
Connecticut
Edwin Land
Edwin Herbert Land
E.H. Land
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It only takes a day to change someone from an anti-intellectual to an intellectual by persuading him that he might be one!
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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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A mistake is a future benefit, the full value of which is yet to be realized.
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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 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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It is a curious property of research activity that after the problem has been solved the solution seems obvious.
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