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Don't do anything that someone else can do.

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Edwin Land
Age: 81 †
Born: 1909
Born: May 7
Died: 1991
Died: March 1
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Bridgeport
Connecticut
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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In this country, there is an opportunity for the development of man's intellectual, cultural, and spiritual potentialities that has never existed before in the history of our species. I mean not simply an opportunity for greatness for a few, but an opportunity for greatness for the many.
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Politeness is the poison of collaboration.
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Anything worth doing is worth doing to excess.
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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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Science is a method to keep yourself from kidding yourself.
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A mistake is a future benefit, the full value of which is yet to be realized.
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Profundity and originality are attributes of single, if not singular, minds.
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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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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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An essential aspect of creativity is not being afraid to fail.
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Someone is going to make your product obsolete. Make sure it's you.
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Over the years, I have learned that every significant invention has several characteristics. By definition it must be startling, unexpected, and must come into a world that is not prepared for it. If the world were prepared for it, it would not be much of an invention.
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