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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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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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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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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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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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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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