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Do not do anything that anyone else can do readily.

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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
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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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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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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 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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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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The most important thing about power is to make sure you don't have to use it.
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Fifty years after we undertook to make the first synthetic polarizers we find them the essential layer in digital liquid-crystal. And thirty four years after we undertook to make the first instant camera and film, our kind of photography has become ubiquitous.
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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 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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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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I don't mind conducting the orchestra if I can play the violin.
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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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Industry is best at the intersection of science and art.
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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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In this country, there is an opportunity for the development of man's intellectual, cultural, and spiritual potentialities that has never existed before in the history of our species. I mean not simply an opportunity for greatness for a few, but an opportunity for greatness for the many.
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There's a rule they don't teach you at the Harvard Business School. It is, if anything is worth doing, it's worth doing to excess.
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Science is a method to keep yourself from kidding yourself.
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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 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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