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The world belongs to the articulate.

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
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Don't do anything that someone else can do.
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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 test of an invention is the power of an inventor to push it through in the face of staunch-not opposition, but indifference-in society.
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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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Industry is best at the intersection of science and art.
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In a few wretched buildings, we created a whole new industry with international significance.
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I believe quite simply that the small company of the future will be as much a research organization as it is a manufacturing company.
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The bottom line is in heaven!
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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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Over the years, I have learned that every significant invention has several characteristics. By definition it must be startling, unexpected, and must come into a world that is not prepared for it. If the world were prepared for it, it would not be much of an invention.
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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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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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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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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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Do not do anything that anyone else can do readily.
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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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Our society is changing so rapidly that none of us can know what it is or where it is going.
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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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Profundity and originality are attributes of single, if not singular, minds.
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