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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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Photographer
Physicist
Bridgeport
Connecticut
Edwin Land
Edwin Herbert Land
E.H. Land
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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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You always start with a fantasy. Part of the fantasy technique is to visualize something as perfect. Then with the experiments you work back from the fantasy to reality, hacking away at the components.
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Science is a method to keep yourself from kidding yourself.
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Politeness is the poison of collaboration.
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The bottom line is in heaven!
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It's not that we need new ideas, but we need to stop having old ideas.
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Look, if the picture you get instantly is as beautiful as the picture you get by waiting seven days, then it is absolute madness to say that there is virtue in waiting.
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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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Someone is going to make your product obsolete. Make sure it's you.
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A mistake is a future benefit, the full value of which is yet to be realized.
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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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A significant inventionmust be startling, unexpected. It must come to a world that is not prepared for it.
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The world belongs to the articulate.
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You cannot separate the composition from the life of the moment. It is all one thing, to be decided in a split second while you're living through it.
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The most important thing about power is to make sure you don't have to use it.
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[A Polaroid camera] places before you a thing that is more of the thing than the thing was.
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In this country, there is an opportunity for the development of man's intellectual, cultural, and spiritual potentialities that has never existed before in the history of our species. I mean not simply an opportunity for greatness for a few, but an opportunity for greatness for the many.
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A premature attempt to explain something that thrills you will destroy your perceptivity rather than increase it, because your tendency will be to explain away rather than seek out.
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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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Don't do anything that someone else can do.
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