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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.
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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Bridgeport
Connecticut
Edwin Land
Edwin Herbert Land
E.H. Land
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I don't mind conducting the orchestra if I can play the violin.
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It's not that we need new ideas, but we need to stop having old ideas.
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Work only on problems that are manifestly important and seem to be nearly impossible to solve. That way you will have a natural market for your product and no competition.
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The very essence of democracy is the absolute faith that while people must cooperate, the first function of democracy, its peculiar gift, is to develop each individual into everything that he might be.
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The bottom line is in heaven!
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Politeness is the poison of collaboration.
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Colour is always a consequence, never a cause.
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In a few wretched buildings, we created a whole new industry with international significance.
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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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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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Profundity and originality are attributes of single, if not singular, minds.
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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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