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A mistake is a future benefit, the full value of which is yet to be realized.

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Edwin Land
Age: 81 †
Born: 1909
Born: May 7
Died: 1991
Died: March 1
Entrepreneur
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Physicist
Bridgeport
Connecticut
Edwin Land
Edwin Herbert Land
E.H. Land
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It's not that we need new ideas, but we need to stop having old ideas.
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A significant inventionmust be startling, unexpected. It must come to a world that is not prepared for it.
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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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Do not do anything that anyone else can do readily.
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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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The bottom line is in heaven!
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A premature attempt to explain something that thrills you will destroy your perceptivity rather than increase it, because your tendency will be to explain away rather than seek out.
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I believe each incoming freshman [in college] must be started at once on his own research project if we are to preserve his secret dream of greatness and make it come true.
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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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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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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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Profundity and originality are attributes of single, if not singular, minds.
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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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Marketing is what you do when your product is no good.
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You cannot separate the composition from the life of the moment. It is all one thing, to be decided in a split second while you're living through it.
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My motto is very personal and may not fit anyone else or any other company. It is: Don't do anything that someone else can do. Don't undertake a project unless it is manifestly important and nearly impossible.
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Politeness is the poison of collaboration.
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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 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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