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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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Bridgeport
Connecticut
Edwin Land
Edwin Herbert Land
E.H. Land
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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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The future may require not so much having a new idea as stopping having an old idea.
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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 an event, the full benefit of which has not yet been turned to your advantage.
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