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The world belongs to the articulate.

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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
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Science is a method to keep yourself from kidding yourself.
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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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Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity.
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In a few wretched buildings, we created a whole new industry with international significance.
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Our society is changing so rapidly that none of us can know what it is or where it is going.
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Anything worth doing is worth doing to excess.
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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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It is a curious property of research activity that after the problem has been solved the solution seems obvious.
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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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I don't mind conducting the orchestra if I can play the violin.
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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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An essential aspect of creativity is not being afraid to fail.
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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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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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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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Profundity and originality are attributes of single, if not singular, minds.
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Industry is best at the intersection of science and art.
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Don't do anything that someone else can do.
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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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