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Don't do anything that someone else can do.
Edwin Land
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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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A mistake is an event, the full benefit of which has not yet been turned to your advantage.
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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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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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Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity.
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An essential aspect of creativity is not being afraid to fail.
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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 bottom line is in heaven!
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Work only on problems that are manifestly important and seem to be nearly impossible to solve. That way you will have a natural market for your product and no competition.
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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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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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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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A significant inventionmust be startling, unexpected. It must come to a world that is not prepared for it.
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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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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 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 is a curious property of research activity that after the problem has been solved the solution seems obvious. This is true not only for those who have not previously been acquainted with the problem, but also for those who have worked over it for years.
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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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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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We can be dramatic, even theatrical we can be persuasive but the message we are telling must be true.
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