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It's not that we need new ideas, but we need to stop having old ideas.

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Edwin Land
Age: 81 †
Born: 1909
Born: May 7
Died: 1991
Died: March 1
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Bridgeport
Connecticut
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Do not do anything that anyone else can do readily.
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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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[A Polaroid camera] places before you a thing that is more of the thing than the thing was.
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Colour is always a consequence, never a cause.
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I don't mind conducting the orchestra if I can play the violin.
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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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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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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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Look, if the picture you get instantly is as beautiful as the picture you get by waiting seven days, then it is absolute madness to say that there is virtue in waiting.
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Industry is best at the intersection of science and art.
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The world belongs to the articulate.
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Fifty years after we undertook to make the first synthetic polarizers we find them the essential layer in digital liquid-crystal. And thirty four years after we undertook to make the first instant camera and film, our kind of photography has become ubiquitous.
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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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A mistake is a future benefit, the full value of which is yet to be realized.
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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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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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Marketing is what you do when your product is no good.
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