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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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Photographer
Physicist
Bridgeport
Connecticut
Edwin Land
Edwin Herbert Land
E.H. Land
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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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Our society is changing so rapidly that none of us can know what it is or where it is going.
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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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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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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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An essential aspect of creativity is not being afraid to fail.
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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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Science is a method to keep yourself from kidding yourself.
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Don't do anything that someone else can do.
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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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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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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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[A Polaroid camera] places before you a thing that is more of the thing than the thing was.
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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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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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Do not do anything that anyone else can do readily.
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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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Colour is always a consequence, never a cause.
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Industry is best at the intersection of science and art.
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