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A mistake is an event, the full benefit of which has not yet been turned to your advantage.

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Edwin Land
Age: 81 †
Born: 1909
Born: May 7
Died: 1991
Died: March 1
Entrepreneur
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Physicist
Bridgeport
Connecticut
Edwin Land
Edwin Herbert Land
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I don't mind conducting the orchestra if I can play the violin.
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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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I submit to you that when in each man the dream of personal greatness dies, democracy loses the real source of its future strength.
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The world is like a fertile field that's waiting to be harvested. The seeds have been planted, and what I do is go out and help plant more seeds and harvest them.
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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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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 future may require not so much having a new idea as stopping having an old idea.
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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 each incoming freshman [in college] must be started at once on his own research project if we are to preserve his secret dream of greatness and make it come true.
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Over the years, I have learned that every significant invention has several characteristics. By definition it must be startling, unexpected, and must come into a world that is not prepared for it. If the world were prepared for it, it would not be much of an invention.
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Industry is best at the intersection of science and art.
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Don't do anything that someone else can do.
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Colour is always a consequence, never a cause.
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An invention that is quickly accepted will turn out to be a rather trivial alteration of something that has already existed.
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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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I have long aspired to make our company a noble prototype of industry, penetrating in science, reliable in engineering, creative in aesthetics and wholesomely prosperous in economics.
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The world belongs to the articulate.
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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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