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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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[A Polaroid camera] places before you a thing that is more of the thing than the thing was.
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Our society is changing so rapidly that none of us can know what it is or where it is going.
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Do not do anything that anyone else can do readily.
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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 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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It's not that we need new ideas, but we need to stop having old ideas.
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Politeness is the poison of collaboration.
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The first thing you do is teach the person to feel that the vision is very important and nearly impossible. That draws out the drive in the winner.
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Industry is best at the intersection of science and art.
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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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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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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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Someone is going to make your product obsolete. Make sure it's you.
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Science is a method to keep yourself from kidding yourself.
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