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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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Bridgeport
Connecticut
Edwin Land
Edwin Herbert Land
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Colour is always a consequence, never a cause.
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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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Science is a method to keep yourself from kidding yourself.
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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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Industry is best at the intersection of science and art.
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Marketing is what you do when your product is no good.
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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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The future may require not so much having a new idea as stopping having an old idea.
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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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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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A significant inventionmust be startling, unexpected. It must come to a world that is not prepared for it.
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It's not that we need new ideas, but we need to stop having old ideas.
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Someone is going to make your product obsolete. Make sure it's you.
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Don't do anything that someone else can do.
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The world belongs to the articulate.
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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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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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I don't mind conducting the orchestra if I can play the violin.
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