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In a few wretched buildings, we created a whole new industry with international significance.

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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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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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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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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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An essential aspect of creativity is not being afraid to fail.
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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 Polaroid camera] places before you a thing that is more of the thing than the thing was.
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I don't mind conducting the orchestra if I can play the violin.
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The bottom line is in heaven!
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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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Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity.
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Science is a method to keep yourself from kidding yourself.
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It is a curious property of research activity that after the problem has been solved the solution seems obvious.
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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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Don't do anything that someone else can do.
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Anything worth doing is worth doing to excess.
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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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A significant inventionmust be startling, unexpected. It must come to a world that is not prepared for it.
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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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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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