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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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A significant inventionmust be startling, unexpected. It must come to a world that is not prepared for it.
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It's not that we need new ideas, but we need to stop having old ideas.
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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.
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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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The world belongs to the articulate.
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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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Politeness is the poison of collaboration.
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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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Do not do anything that anyone else can do readily.
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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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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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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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The bottom line is in heaven!
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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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Colour is always a consequence, never a cause.
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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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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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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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Look, if the picture you get instantly is as beautiful as the picture you get by waiting seven days, then it is absolute madness to say that there is virtue in waiting.
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