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Our society is changing so rapidly that none of us can know what it is or where it is going.
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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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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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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It is a curious property of research activity that after the problem has been solved the solution seems obvious.
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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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As I review the nature of the creative drive in the inventive scientists that have been around me, as well as in myself, I find the first event is an urge to make a significant intellectual contribution that can be tangible embodied in a product or process.
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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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Industry is best at the intersection of science and art.
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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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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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[A Polaroid camera] places before you a thing that is more of the thing than the thing was.
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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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A mistake is an event, the full benefit of which has not yet been turned to your advantage.
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