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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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Over the years, I have learned that every significant invention has several characteristics. By definition it must be startling, unexpected, and must come into a world that is not prepared for it. If the world were prepared for it, it would not be much of an invention.
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Industry is best at the intersection of science and art.
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Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity.
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In a few wretched buildings, we created a whole new industry with international significance.
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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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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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Why do I want to believe what I believe?... Science, to put it somewhat vulgarly, is a technique to keep yourself from kidding yourself.
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Don't do anything that someone else can do.
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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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It's not that we need new ideas, but we need to stop having old ideas.
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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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Our society is changing so rapidly that none of us can know what it is or where it is going.
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An essential aspect of creativity is not being afraid to fail.
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A mistake is a future benefit, the full value of which is yet to be realized.
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The bottom line is in heaven!
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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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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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[A Polaroid camera] places before you a thing that is more of the thing than the thing was.
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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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Politeness is the poison of collaboration.
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