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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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A mistake is an event, the full benefit of which has not yet been turned to your advantage.
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I submit to you that when in each man the dream of personal greatness dies, democracy loses the real source of its future strength.
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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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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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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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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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Someone is going to make your product obsolete. Make sure it's you.
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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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The bottom line is in heaven!
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You always start with a fantasy. Part of the fantasy technique is to visualize something as perfect. Then with the experiments you work back from the fantasy to reality, hacking away at the components.
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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 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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Colour is always a consequence, never a cause.
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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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The most important thing about power is to make sure you don't have to use it.
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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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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 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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In a few wretched buildings, we created a whole new industry with international significance.
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