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Industry is best at the intersection of science and art.
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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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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It is a curious property of research activity that after the problem has been solved the solution seems obvious. This is true not only for those who have not previously been acquainted with the problem, but also for those who have worked over it for years.
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Someone is going to make your product obsolete. Make sure it's you.
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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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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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Anything worth doing is worth doing to excess.
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An invention that is quickly accepted will turn out to be a rather trivial alteration of something that has already existed.
Edwin Land
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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Marketing is what you do when your product is no good.
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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.
Edwin Land
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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Don't do anything that someone else can do.
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A mistake is an event, the full benefit of which has not yet been turned to your advantage.
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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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I believe that each young person is different from any other who has ever lived, as different as his fingerprints: that he could bring to the world a wonderful and special way of solving unsolved problems, that in his special way, he can be great.
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There's a rule they don't teach you at the Harvard Business School. It is, if anything is worth doing, it's worth doing to excess.
Edwin Land
In a few wretched buildings, we created a whole new industry with international significance.
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[A Polaroid camera] places before you a thing that is more of the thing than the thing was.
Edwin Land
Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity.
Edwin Land
A mistake is a future benefit, the full value of which is yet to be realized.
Edwin Land
