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  An essential aspect of creativity is not being afraid to fail.

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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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• Don’t undertake a project unless it is manifestly important and nearly impossible.

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• Any problem can be solved using the materials in the room.

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• Politeness is the poison of collaboration.

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• Science is a method to keep yourself from kidding yourself.

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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 essential part of creativity is not being afraid to fail.

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• Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity.

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• If you dream of something worth doing and then simply go to work on it and don’t think anything of personalities, or emotional conflicts, or of money, or of family distractions; it is amazing how quickly you get through those 5,000 steps.

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Edwin Herbert Land (11)

Birth:	7th May, 1909
Death:	1st March, 1991
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Inventor

About

Edwin Herbert Land was born in Bridgeport, Connecticut, USA. He was an American inventor, best known as the co-founder of the Polaroid Corporation. Among other things, he invented inexpensive filters for polarizing light, a practical system of in-camera instant photography, and his retinex theory of color vision. He studied chemistry at Harvard University.

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