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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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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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Colour is always a consequence, never a cause.
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Someone is going to make your product obsolete. Make sure it's you.
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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 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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Our society is changing so rapidly that none of us can know what it is or where it is going.
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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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We took nothing from anybody. We gave a great deal to the world. The only thing keeping us alive is our brilliance. The only thing that keeps our brilliance alive is our patents.
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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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[A Polaroid camera] places before you a thing that is more of the thing than the thing was.
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An essential aspect of creativity is not being afraid to fail.
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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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A significant inventionmust be startling, unexpected. It must come to a world that is not prepared for it.
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It's not that we need new ideas, but we need to stop having old ideas.
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We live in a world changing so rapidly that what we mean frequently by common sense is doing the thing that would have been right last year.
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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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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 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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