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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.
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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Science is a method to keep yourself from kidding yourself.
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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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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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A mistake is an event, the full benefit of which has not yet been turned to your advantage.
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In this country, there is an opportunity for the development of man's intellectual, cultural, and spiritual potentialities that has never existed before in the history of our species. I mean not simply an opportunity for greatness for a few, but an opportunity for greatness for the many.
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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 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 very essence of democracy is the absolute faith that while people must cooperate, the first function of democracy, its peculiar gift, is to develop each individual into everything that he might be.
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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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Don't do anything that someone else can do.
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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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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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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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I don't mind conducting the orchestra if I can play the violin.
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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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