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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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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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Do not do anything that anyone else can do readily.
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Don't do anything that someone else can do.
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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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Why do I want to believe what I believe?... Science, to put it somewhat vulgarly, is a technique to keep yourself from kidding yourself.
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The world belongs to the articulate.
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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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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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We can be dramatic, even theatrical we can be persuasive but the message we are telling must be true.
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Politeness is the poison of collaboration.
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I don't mind conducting the orchestra if I can play the violin.
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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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Profundity and originality are attributes of single, if not singular, minds.
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It's not that we need new ideas, but we need to stop having old ideas.
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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 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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The world is like a fertile field that's waiting to be harvested. The seeds have been planted, and what I do is go out and help plant more seeds and harvest them.
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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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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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