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Do not do anything that anyone else can do readily.
Edwin Land
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Edwin Land
Age: 81 †
Born: 1909
Born: May 7
Died: 1991
Died: March 1
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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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[A Polaroid camera] places before you a thing that is more of the thing than the thing was.
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Marketing is what you do when your product is no good.
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It's not that we need new ideas, but we need to stop having old ideas.
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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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Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity.
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The test of an invention is the power of an inventor to push it through in the face of staunch-not opposition, but indifference-in society.
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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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Profundity and originality are attributes of single, if not singular, minds.
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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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Politeness is the poison of collaboration.
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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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Anything worth doing is worth doing to excess.
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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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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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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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In a few wretched buildings, we created a whole new industry with international significance.
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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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Someone is going to make your product obsolete. Make sure it's you.
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