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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
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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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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 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.
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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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[A Polaroid camera] places before you a thing that is more of the thing than the thing was.
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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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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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Industry is best at the intersection of science and art.
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Someone is going to make your product obsolete. Make sure it's you.
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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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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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The most important thing about power is to make sure you don't have to use it.
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Don't do anything that someone else can do.
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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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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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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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