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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
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Edwin Herbert Land
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Someone is going to make your product obsolete. Make sure it's you.
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The world belongs to the articulate.
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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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Our society is changing so rapidly that none of us can know what it is or where it is going.
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It's not that we need new ideas, but we need to stop having old ideas.
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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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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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[A Polaroid camera] places before you a thing that is more of the thing than the thing was.
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We took nothing from anybody. We gave a great deal to the world. The only thing keeping us alive is our brilliance. The only thing that keeps our brilliance alive is our patents.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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The first thing you do is teach the person to feel that the vision is very important and nearly impossible. That draws out the drive in the winner.
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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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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 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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