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I don't mind conducting the orchestra if I can play the violin.

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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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Profundity and originality are attributes of single, if not singular, minds.
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A mistake is a future benefit, the full value of which is yet to be realized.
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Colour is always a consequence, never a cause.
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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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Science is a method to keep yourself from kidding yourself.
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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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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 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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I have long aspired to make our company a noble prototype of industry, penetrating in science, reliable in engineering, creative in aesthetics and wholesomely prosperous in economics.
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In a few wretched buildings, we created a whole new industry with international significance.
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