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Science is a method to keep yourself from kidding yourself.

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
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Science
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Kidding

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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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A significant inventionmust be startling, unexpected. It must come to a world that is not prepared for it.
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I don't mind conducting the orchestra if I can play the violin.
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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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Industry is best at the intersection of science and art.
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Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity.
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There's a rule they don't teach you at the Harvard Business School. It is, if anything is worth doing, it's worth doing to excess.
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My motto is very personal and may not fit anyone else or any other company. It is: Don't do anything that someone else can do. Don't undertake a project unless it is manifestly important and nearly impossible.
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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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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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In a few wretched buildings, we created a whole new industry with international significance.
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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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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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The first thing you do is teach the person to feel that the vision is very important and nearly impossible. That draws out the drive in the winner.
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It's not that we need new ideas, but we need to stop having old ideas.
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Anything worth doing is worth doing to excess.
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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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A mistake is a future benefit, the full value of which is yet to be realized.
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The world belongs to the articulate.
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