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Science is a method to keep yourself from kidding yourself.

Edwin Land

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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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My motto is very personal and may not fit anyone else or any other company. It is: Don't do anything that someone else can do. Don't undertake a project unless it is manifestly important and nearly impossible.
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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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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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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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Industry is best at the intersection of science and art.
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Someone is going to make your product obsolete. Make sure it's you.
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Marketing is what you do when your product is no good.
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The world belongs to the articulate.
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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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Don't do anything that someone else can do.
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I don't mind conducting the orchestra if I can play the violin.
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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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Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity.
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Colour is always a consequence, never a cause.
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Over the years, I have learned that every significant invention has several characteristics. By definition it must be startling, unexpected, and must come into a world that is not prepared for it. If the world were prepared for it, it would not be much of an invention.
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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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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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You always start with a fantasy. Part of the fantasy technique is to visualize something as perfect. Then with the experiments you work back from the fantasy to reality, hacking away at the components.
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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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