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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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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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Science is a method to keep yourself from kidding yourself.
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I have long aspired to make our company a noble prototype of industry, penetrating in science, reliable in engineering, creative in aesthetics and wholesomely prosperous in economics.
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It's not that we need new ideas, but we need to stop having old ideas.
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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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Colour is always a consequence, never a cause.
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The future may require not so much having a new idea as stopping having an old idea.
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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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Profundity and originality are attributes of single, if not singular, minds.
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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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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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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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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 significant inventionmust be startling, unexpected. It must come to a world that is not prepared for it.
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I don't mind conducting the orchestra if I can play the violin.
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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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A mistake is a future benefit, the full value of which is yet to be realized.
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Marketing is what you do when your product is no good.
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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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Do not do anything that anyone else can do readily.
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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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