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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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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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It's not that we need new ideas, but we need to stop having old ideas.
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An essential aspect of creativity is not being afraid to fail.
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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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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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The bottom line is in heaven!
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Profundity and originality are attributes of single, if not singular, minds.
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The world belongs to the articulate.
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I believe each incoming freshman [in college] must be started at once on his own research project if we are to preserve his secret dream of greatness and make it come true.
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Anything worth doing is worth doing to excess.
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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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In a few wretched buildings, we created a whole new industry with international significance.
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I don't mind conducting the orchestra if I can play the violin.
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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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