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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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Photographer
Physicist
Bridgeport
Connecticut
Edwin Land
Edwin Herbert Land
E.H. Land
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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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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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It's not that we need new ideas, but we need to stop having old ideas.
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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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A premature attempt to explain something that thrills you will destroy your perceptivity rather than increase it, because your tendency will be to explain away rather than seek out.
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Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity.
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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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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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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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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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It is a curious property of research activity that after the problem has been solved the solution seems obvious.
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Don't do anything that someone else can do.
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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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There's a rule they don't teach you at the Harvard Business School. It is, if anything is worth doing, it's worth doing to excess.
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Politeness is the poison of collaboration.
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A mistake is a future benefit, the full value of which is yet to be realized.
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A significant inventionmust be startling, unexpected. It must come to a world that is not prepared for it.
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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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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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