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Someone is going to make your product obsolete. Make sure it's you.

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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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In a few wretched buildings, we created a whole new industry with international significance.
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The most important thing about power is to make sure you don't have to use it.
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Profundity and originality are attributes of single, if not singular, minds.
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