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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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Physicist
Bridgeport
Connecticut
Edwin Land
Edwin Herbert Land
E.H. Land
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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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