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[A Polaroid camera] places before you a thing that is more of the thing than the thing was.
Edwin Land
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Edwin Land
Age: 81 †
Born: 1909
Born: May 7
Died: 1991
Died: March 1
Entrepreneur
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Photographer
Physicist
Bridgeport
Connecticut
Edwin Land
Edwin Herbert Land
E.H. Land
Polaroid
Camera
Cameras
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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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It is a curious property of research activity that after the problem has been solved the solution seems obvious. This is true not only for those who have not previously been acquainted with the problem, but also for those who have worked over it for years.
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The world belongs to the articulate.
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Industry is best at the intersection of science and art.
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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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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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In a few wretched buildings, we created a whole new industry with international significance.
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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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A mistake is an event, the full benefit of which has not yet been turned to your advantage.
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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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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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Profundity and originality are attributes of single, if not singular, minds.
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Anything worth doing is worth doing to excess.
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Politeness is the poison of collaboration.
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Don't do anything that someone else can do.
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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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In this country, there is an opportunity for the development of man's intellectual, cultural, and spiritual potentialities that has never existed before in the history of our species. I mean not simply an opportunity for greatness for a few, but an opportunity for greatness for the many.
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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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Aladdin in his most intoxicated moments would never have dreamed of asking his [djinn] for [a polaroid] ... It's utterly new in concept and appearance, utilizing an utterly revolutionary flash system, an utterly revolutionary viewing system, utterly revolutionary electronics, and utterly revolutionary film structure.
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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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