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Profundity and originality are attributes of single, if not singular, minds.
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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Photographer
Physicist
Bridgeport
Connecticut
Edwin Land
Edwin Herbert Land
E.H. Land
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I believe that each young person is different from any other who has ever lived, as different as his fingerprints: that he could bring to the world a wonderful and special way of solving unsolved problems, that in his special way, he can be great.
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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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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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A mistake is an event, the full benefit of which has not yet been turned to your advantage.
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My motto is very personal and may not fit anyone else or any other company. It is: Don't do anything that someone else can do. Don't undertake a project unless it is manifestly important and nearly impossible.
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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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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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Politeness is the poison of collaboration.
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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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[A Polaroid camera] places before you a thing that is more of the thing than the thing was.
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The world belongs to the articulate.
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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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Colour is always a consequence, never a cause.
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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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In a few wretched buildings, we created a whole new industry with international significance.
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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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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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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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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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