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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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Edwin Land
Age: 81 †
Born: 1909
Born: May 7
Died: 1991
Died: March 1
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Bridgeport
Connecticut
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Edwin Herbert Land
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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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I submit to you that when in each man the dream of personal greatness dies, democracy loses the real source of its future strength.
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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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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 bottom line is in heaven!
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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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An essential aspect of creativity is not being afraid to fail.
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Politeness is the poison of collaboration.
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Fifty years after we undertook to make the first synthetic polarizers we find them the essential layer in digital liquid-crystal. And thirty four years after we undertook to make the first instant camera and film, our kind of photography has become ubiquitous.
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The world belongs to the articulate.
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Colour is always a consequence, never a cause.
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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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You always start with a fantasy. Part of the fantasy technique is to visualize something as perfect. Then with the experiments you work back from the fantasy to reality, hacking away at the components.
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In a few wretched buildings, we created a whole new industry with international significance.
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Profundity and originality are attributes of single, if not singular, minds.
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Marketing is what you do when your product is no good.
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Science is a method to keep yourself from kidding yourself.
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