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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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Bridgeport
Connecticut
Edwin Land
Edwin Herbert Land
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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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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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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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Do not do anything that anyone else can do readily.
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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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[A Polaroid camera] places before you a thing that is more of the thing than the thing was.
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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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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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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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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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The world belongs to the articulate.
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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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I have long aspired to make our company a noble prototype of industry, penetrating in science, reliable in engineering, creative in aesthetics and wholesomely prosperous in economics.
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I don't mind conducting the orchestra if I can play the violin.
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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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