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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!
Edwin Land
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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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Edwin Herbert Land
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The very essence of democracy is the absolute faith that while people must cooperate, the first function of democracy, its peculiar gift, is to develop each individual into everything that he might be.
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Do not do anything that anyone else can do readily.
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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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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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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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Marketing is what you do when your product is no good.
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It's not that we need new ideas, but we need to stop having old ideas.
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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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There's a rule they don't teach you at the Harvard Business School. It is, if anything is worth doing, it's worth doing to excess.
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Someone is going to make your product obsolete. Make sure it's you.
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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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I don't mind conducting the orchestra if I can play the violin.
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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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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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[A Polaroid camera] places before you a thing that is more of the thing than the thing was.
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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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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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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 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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In a few wretched buildings, we created a whole new industry with international significance.
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