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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
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Photographer
Physicist
Bridgeport
Connecticut
Edwin Land
Edwin Herbert Land
E.H. Land
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I don't mind conducting the orchestra if I can play the violin.
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A mistake is a future benefit, the full value of which is yet to be realized.
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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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Colour is always a consequence, never a cause.
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The bottom line is in heaven!
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It is a curious property of research activity that after the problem has been solved the solution seems obvious.
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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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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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In a few wretched buildings, we created a whole new industry with international significance.
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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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Politeness is the poison of collaboration.
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It only takes a day to change someone from an anti-intellectual to an intellectual by persuading him that he might be one!
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You always start with a fantasy. Part of the fantasy technique is to visualize something as perfect. Then with the experiments you work back from the fantasy to reality, hacking away at the components.
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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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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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The world belongs to the articulate.
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Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity.
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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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Fifty years after we undertook to make the first synthetic polarizers we find them the essential layer in digital liquid-crystal. And thirty four years after we undertook to make the first instant camera and film, our kind of photography has become ubiquitous.
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