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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
Articulate
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World

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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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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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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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Don't do anything that someone else can do.
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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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A significant inventionmust be startling, unexpected. It must come to a world that is not prepared for it.
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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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Profundity and originality are attributes of single, if not singular, minds.
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Politeness is the poison of collaboration.
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We can be dramatic, even theatrical we can be persuasive but the message we are telling must be true.
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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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Industry is best at the intersection of science and art.
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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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The most important thing about power is to make sure you don't have to use it.
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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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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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Someone is going to make your product obsolete. Make sure it's you.
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Science is a method to keep yourself from kidding yourself.
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