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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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Edwin Land
Age: 81 †
Born: 1909
Born: May 7
Died: 1991
Died: March 1
Entrepreneur
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Photographer
Physicist
Bridgeport
Connecticut
Edwin Land
Edwin Herbert Land
E.H. Land
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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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It's not that we need new ideas, but we need to stop having old ideas.
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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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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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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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