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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!
Edwin Land
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Edwin Land
Age: 81 †
Born: 1909
Born: May 7
Died: 1991
Died: March 1
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Bridgeport
Connecticut
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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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Marketing is what you do when your product is no good.
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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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Do not do anything that anyone else can do readily.
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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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An essential aspect of creativity is not being afraid to fail.
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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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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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In a few wretched buildings, we created a whole new industry with international significance.
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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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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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Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity.
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I don't mind conducting the orchestra if I can play the violin.
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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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