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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
E.H. Land
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We can be dramatic, even theatrical we can be persuasive but the message we are telling must be true.
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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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I believe quite simply that the small company of the future will be as much a research organization as it is a manufacturing company.
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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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Politeness is the poison of collaboration.
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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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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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Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity.
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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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It is a curious property of research activity that after the problem has been solved the solution seems obvious.
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