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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
Inventor
Photographer
Physicist
Bridgeport
Connecticut
Edwin Land
Edwin Herbert Land
E.H. Land
Life
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We took nothing from anybody. We gave a great deal to the world. The only thing keeping us alive is our brilliance. The only thing that keeps our brilliance alive is our patents.
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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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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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It is a curious property of research activity that after the problem has been solved the solution seems obvious. This is true not only for those who have not previously been acquainted with the problem, but also for those who have worked over it for years.
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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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I don't mind conducting the orchestra if I can play the violin.
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The world belongs to the articulate.
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It's not that we need new ideas, but we need to stop having old ideas.
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Science is a method 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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Anything worth doing is worth doing to excess.
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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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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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Colour is always a consequence, never a cause.
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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 significant inventionmust be startling, unexpected. It must come to a world that is not prepared for it.
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