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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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Politeness is the poison of collaboration.
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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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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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Someone is going to make your product obsolete. Make sure it's you.
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A premature attempt to explain something that thrills you will destroy your perceptivity rather than increase it, because your tendency will be to explain away rather than seek out.
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It's not that we need new ideas, but we need to stop having old ideas.
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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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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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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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Marketing is what you do when your product is no good.
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Why do I want to believe what I believe?... Science, to put it somewhat vulgarly, is a technique 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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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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In a few wretched buildings, we created a whole new industry with international significance.
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Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity.
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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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Anything worth doing is worth doing to excess.
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I have long aspired to make our company a noble prototype of industry, penetrating in science, reliable in engineering, creative in aesthetics and wholesomely prosperous in economics.
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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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