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Politeness is the poison of collaboration.

Edwin Land

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Edwin Land
Age: 81 †
Born: 1909
Born: May 7
Died: 1991
Died: March 1
Entrepreneur
Inventor
Photographer
Physicist
Bridgeport
Connecticut
Edwin Land
Edwin Herbert Land
E.H. Land
Poison
Decision
Politeness
Teamwork
Collaboration

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Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity.
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Don't do anything that someone else can do.
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We live in a world changing so rapidly that what we mean frequently by common sense is doing the thing that would have been right last year.
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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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The most important thing about power is to make sure you don't have to use it.
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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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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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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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A mistake is a future benefit, the full value of which is yet to be realized.
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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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