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Industry is best at the intersection of science and art.

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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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I believe each incoming freshman [in college] must be started at once on his own research project if we are to preserve his secret dream of greatness and make it come true.
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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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The future may require not so much having a new idea as stopping having an old idea.
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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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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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Someone is going to make your product obsolete. Make sure it's you.
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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 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 world belongs to the articulate.
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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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Profundity and originality are attributes of single, if not singular, minds.
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Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity.
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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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I don't mind conducting the orchestra if I can play the violin.
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Politeness is the poison of collaboration.
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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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It's not that we need new ideas, but we need to stop having old ideas.
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