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Anything worth doing is worth doing to excess.

Edwin Land

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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
Excess
Worth
Anything

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Why do I want to believe what I believe?... Science, to put it somewhat vulgarly, is a technique to keep yourself from kidding yourself.
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Someone is going to make your product obsolete. Make sure it's you.
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Profundity and originality are attributes of single, if not singular, minds.
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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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Industry is best at the intersection of science and art.
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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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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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The most important thing about power is to make sure you don't have to use it.
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We live in a world changing so rapidly that what we mean frequently by common sense is doing the thing that would have been right last year.
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Do not do anything that anyone else can do readily.
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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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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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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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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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Science is a method to keep yourself from kidding yourself.
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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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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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The world belongs to the articulate.
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