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Industry is best at the intersection of science and art.

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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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We took nothing from anybody. We gave a great deal to the world. The only thing keeping us alive is our brilliance. The only thing that keeps our brilliance alive is our patents.
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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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[A Polaroid camera] places before you a thing that is more of the thing than the thing was.
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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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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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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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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.
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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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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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Do not do anything that anyone else can do readily.
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We can be dramatic, even theatrical we can be persuasive but the message we are telling must be true.
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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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A mistake is an event, the full benefit of which has not yet been turned to your advantage.
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I don't mind conducting the orchestra if I can play the violin.
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Someone is going to make your product obsolete. Make sure it's you.
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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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A mistake is a future benefit, the full value of which is yet to be realized.
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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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Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity.
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