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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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Politeness is the poison of collaboration.
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The very essence of democracy is the absolute faith that while people must cooperate, the first function of democracy, its peculiar gift, is to develop each individual into everything that he might be.
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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's not that we need new ideas, but we need to stop having old ideas.
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Profundity and originality are attributes of single, if not singular, minds.
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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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An essential aspect of creativity is not being afraid to fail.
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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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Marketing is what you do when your product is no good.
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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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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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A significant inventionmust be startling, unexpected. It must come to a world that is not prepared for it.
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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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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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Anything worth doing is worth doing to excess.
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Colour is always a consequence, never a cause.
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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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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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A mistake is a future benefit, the full value of which is yet to be realized.
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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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