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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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Edwin Land
Age: 81 †
Born: 1909
Born: May 7
Died: 1991
Died: March 1
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Bridgeport
Connecticut
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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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As I review the nature of the creative drive in the inventive scientists that have been around me, as well as in myself, I find the first event is an urge to make a significant intellectual contribution that can be tangible embodied in a product or process.
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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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Don't do anything that someone else can do.
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Colour is always a consequence, never a cause.
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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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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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The world is like a fertile field that's waiting to be harvested. The seeds have been planted, and what I do is go out and help plant more seeds and harvest them.
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Someone is going to make your product obsolete. Make sure it's you.
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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 mistake is a future benefit, the full value of which is yet to be realized.
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Do not do anything that anyone else can do readily.
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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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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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The bottom line is in heaven!
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An essential aspect of creativity is not being afraid to fail.
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I don't mind conducting the orchestra if I can play the violin.
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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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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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