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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.
Edwin Land
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Edwin Land
Age: 81 †
Born: 1909
Born: May 7
Died: 1991
Died: March 1
Entrepreneur
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Bridgeport
Connecticut
Edwin Land
Edwin Herbert Land
E.H. Land
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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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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 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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The most important thing about power is to make sure you don't have to use it.
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Over the years, I have learned that every significant invention has several characteristics. By definition it must be startling, unexpected, and must come into a world that is not prepared for it. If the world were prepared for it, it would not be much of an invention.
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Industry is best at the intersection of science and art.
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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 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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We can be dramatic, even theatrical we can be persuasive but the message we are telling must be 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 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 bottom line is in heaven!
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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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