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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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Science is a method 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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Industry is best at the intersection of science and art.
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Politeness is the poison of collaboration.
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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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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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A significant inventionmust be startling, unexpected. It must come to a world that is not prepared for it.
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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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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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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 belongs to the articulate.
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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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Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity.
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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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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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It is a curious property of research activity that after the problem has been solved the solution seems obvious.
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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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Marketing is what you do when your product is no good.
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