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Colour is always a consequence, never a cause.

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Edwin Land
Age: 81 †
Born: 1909
Born: May 7
Died: 1991
Died: March 1
Entrepreneur
Inventor
Photographer
Physicist
Bridgeport
Connecticut
Edwin Land
Edwin Herbert Land
E.H. Land
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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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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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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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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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Profundity and originality are attributes of single, if not singular, minds.
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We can be dramatic, even theatrical we can be persuasive but the message we are telling must be true.
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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 mistake is a future benefit, the full value of which is yet to be realized.
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Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity.
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Politeness is the poison of collaboration.
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The bottom line is in heaven!
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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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The most important thing about power is to make sure you don't have to use it.
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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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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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Industry is best at the intersection of science and art.
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