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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
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Photographer
Physicist
Bridgeport
Connecticut
Edwin Land
Edwin Herbert Land
E.H. Land
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Someone is going to make your product obsolete. Make sure it's you.
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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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Profundity and originality are attributes of single, if not singular, minds.
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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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In a few wretched buildings, we created a whole new industry with international significance.
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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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It's not that we need new ideas, but we need to stop having old ideas.
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