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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
World
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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.
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Politeness is the poison of collaboration.
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Colour is always a consequence, never a cause.
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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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I believe that each young person is different from any other who has ever lived, as different as his fingerprints: that he could bring to the world a wonderful and special way of solving unsolved problems, that in his special way, he can be great.
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Science is a method to keep yourself from kidding yourself.
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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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A mistake is a future benefit, the full value of which is yet to be realized.
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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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In a few wretched buildings, we created a whole new industry with international significance.
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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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There's a rule they don't teach you at the Harvard Business School. It is, if anything is worth doing, it's worth doing to excess.
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Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity.
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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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An invention that is quickly accepted will turn out to be a rather trivial alteration of something that has already existed.
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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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Profundity and originality are attributes of single, if not singular, minds.
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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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The future may require not so much having a new idea as stopping having an old idea.
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