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Don't do anything that someone else can do.

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Edwin Land
Age: 81 †
Born: 1909
Born: May 7
Died: 1991
Died: March 1
Entrepreneur
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Photographer
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Bridgeport
Connecticut
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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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A mistake is an event, the full benefit of which has not yet been turned to your advantage.
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It's not that we need new ideas, but we need to stop having old ideas.
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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 mistake is a future benefit, the full value of which is yet to be realized.
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The very essence of democracy is the absolute faith that while people must cooperate, the first function of democracy, its peculiar gift, is to develop each individual into everything that he might be.
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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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The bottom line is in heaven!
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I believe that each young person is different from any other who has ever lived, as different as his fingerprints: that he could bring to the world a wonderful and special way of solving unsolved problems, that in his special way, he can be great.
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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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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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Marketing is what you do when your product is no good.
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An essential aspect of creativity is not being afraid to fail.
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I don't mind conducting the orchestra if I can play the violin.
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The test of an invention is the power of an inventor to push it through in the face of staunch-not opposition, but indifference-in society.
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The world belongs to the articulate.
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In a few wretched buildings, we created a whole new industry with international significance.
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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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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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