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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
Inventor
Photographer
Physicist
Bridgeport
Connecticut
Edwin Land
Edwin Herbert Land
E.H. Land
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The test of an invention is the power of an inventor to push it through in the face of staunch-not opposition, but indifference-in society.
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Anything worth doing is worth doing to excess.
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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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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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Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity.
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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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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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A significant inventionmust be startling, unexpected. It must come to a world that is not prepared for it.
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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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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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Colour is always a consequence, never a cause.
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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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I don't mind conducting the orchestra if I can play the violin.
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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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Industry is best at the intersection of science and art.
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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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The bottom line is in heaven!
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Do not do anything that anyone else can do readily.
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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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