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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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Thing

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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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The most important thing about power is to make sure you don't have to use it.
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Science is a method to keep yourself from kidding yourself.
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The first thing you do is teach the person to feel that the vision is very important and nearly impossible. That draws out the drive in the winner.
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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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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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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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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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Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity.
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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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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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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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The world belongs to the articulate.
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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 future may require not so much having a new idea as stopping having an old idea.
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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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