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Do not do anything that anyone else can do readily.

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Edwin Land
Age: 81 †
Born: 1909
Born: May 7
Died: 1991
Died: March 1
Entrepreneur
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Bridgeport
Connecticut
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Science is a method to keep yourself from kidding yourself.
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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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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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I don't mind conducting the orchestra if I can play the violin.
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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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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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In a few wretched buildings, we created a whole new industry with international significance.
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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 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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The future may require not so much having a new idea as stopping having an old idea.
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Industry is best at the intersection of science and art.
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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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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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[A Polaroid camera] places before you a thing that is more of the thing than the thing was.
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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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Anything worth doing is worth doing to excess.
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Colour is always a consequence, never a cause.
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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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