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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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Don't do anything that someone else can do.
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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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As I review the nature of the creative drive in the inventive scientists that have been around me, as well as in myself, I find the first event is an urge to make a significant intellectual contribution that can be tangible embodied in a product or process.
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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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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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The most important thing about power is to make sure you don't have to use it.
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It is a curious property of research activity that after the problem has been solved the solution seems obvious.
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Colour is always a consequence, never a cause.
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Anything worth doing is worth doing to excess.
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It is a curious property of research activity that after the problem has been solved the solution seems obvious. This is true not only for those who have not previously been acquainted with the problem, but also for those who have worked over it for years.
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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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Aladdin in his most intoxicated moments would never have dreamed of asking his [djinn] for [a polaroid] ... It's utterly new in concept and appearance, utilizing an utterly revolutionary flash system, an utterly revolutionary viewing system, utterly revolutionary electronics, and utterly revolutionary film structure.
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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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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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An essential aspect of creativity is not being afraid to fail.
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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 world belongs to the articulate.
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In a few wretched buildings, we created a whole new industry with international significance.
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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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