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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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Colour is always a consequence, never a cause.
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Science is a method to keep yourself from kidding yourself.
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Politeness is the poison of collaboration.
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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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Work only on problems that are manifestly important and seem to be nearly impossible to solve. That way you will have a natural market for your product and no competition.
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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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It is a curious property of research activity that after the problem has been solved the solution seems obvious.
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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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A mistake is a future benefit, the full value of which is yet to be realized.
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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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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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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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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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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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Profundity and originality are attributes of single, if not singular, minds.
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I don't mind conducting the orchestra if I can play the violin.
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Anything worth doing is worth doing to excess.
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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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