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Science is a method to keep yourself from kidding yourself.

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Edwin Land
Age: 81 †
Born: 1909
Born: May 7
Died: 1991
Died: March 1
Entrepreneur
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Photographer
Physicist
Bridgeport
Connecticut
Edwin Land
Edwin Herbert Land
E.H. Land
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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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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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Marketing is what you do when your product is no good.
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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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Do not do anything that anyone else can do readily.
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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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The future may require not so much having a new idea as stopping having an old idea.
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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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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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The bottom line is in heaven!
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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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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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In a few wretched buildings, we created a whole new industry with international significance.
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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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We can be dramatic, even theatrical we can be persuasive but the message we are telling must be true.
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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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I don't mind conducting the orchestra if I can play the violin.
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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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Someone is going to make your product obsolete. Make sure it's you.
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