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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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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
Polaroid
Camera
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Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity.
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Politeness is the poison of collaboration.
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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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Colour is always a consequence, never a cause.
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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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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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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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Profundity and originality are attributes of single, if not singular, minds.
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Do not do anything that anyone else can do readily.
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In a few wretched buildings, we created a whole new industry with international significance.
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The world belongs to the articulate.
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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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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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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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