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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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A mistake is an event, the full benefit of which has not yet been turned to your advantage.
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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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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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Someone is going to make your product obsolete. Make sure it's you.
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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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It is a curious property of research activity that after the problem has been solved the solution seems obvious.
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The world belongs to the articulate.
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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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Anything worth doing is worth doing to excess.
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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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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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Don't do anything that someone else can do.
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Marketing is what you do when your product is no good.
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It's not that we need new ideas, but we need to stop having old ideas.
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The most important thing about power is to make sure you don't have to use it.
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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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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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Profundity and originality are attributes of single, if not singular, minds.
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Industry is best at the intersection of science and art.
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