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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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Edwin Land
Age: 81 †
Born: 1909
Born: May 7
Died: 1991
Died: March 1
Entrepreneur
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Photographer
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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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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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Our society is changing so rapidly that none of us can know what it is or where it is going.
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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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[A Polaroid camera] places before you a thing that is more of the thing than the thing was.
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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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A significant inventionmust be startling, unexpected. It must come to a world that is not prepared for it.
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Anything worth doing is worth doing to excess.
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The bottom line is in heaven!
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It's not that we need new ideas, but we need to stop having old ideas.
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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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The world belongs to the articulate.
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In a few wretched buildings, we created a whole new industry with international significance.
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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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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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Industry is best at the intersection of science and art.
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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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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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A mistake is an event, the full benefit of which has not yet been turned to your advantage.
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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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