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A mistake is an event, the full benefit of which has not yet been turned to your advantage.
Edwin Land
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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
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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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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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A mistake is a future benefit, the full value of which is yet to be realized.
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Profundity and originality are attributes of single, if not singular, minds.
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Do not do anything that anyone else can do readily.
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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's not that we need new ideas, but we need to stop having old ideas.
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We live in a world changing so rapidly that what we mean frequently by common sense is doing the thing that would have been right last year.
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My motto is very personal and may not fit anyone else or any other company. It is: Don't do anything that someone else can do. Don't undertake a project unless it is manifestly important and nearly impossible.
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In a few wretched buildings, we created a whole new industry with international significance.
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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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Colour is always a consequence, never a cause.
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There's a rule they don't teach you at the Harvard Business School. It is, if anything is worth doing, it's worth doing to excess.
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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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Aladdin in his most intoxicated moments would never have dreamed of asking his [djinn] for [a polaroid] ... It's utterly new in concept and appearance, utilizing an utterly revolutionary flash system, an utterly revolutionary viewing system, utterly revolutionary electronics, and utterly revolutionary film structure.
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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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Anything worth doing is worth doing to excess.
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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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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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Science is a method to keep yourself from kidding yourself.
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