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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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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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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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Politeness is the poison of collaboration.
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I don't mind conducting the orchestra if I can play the violin.
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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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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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The bottom line is in heaven!
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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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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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The most important thing about power is to make sure you don't have to use it.
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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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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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It's not that we need new ideas, but we need to stop having old ideas.
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Our society is changing so rapidly that none of us can know what it is or where it is going.
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Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity.
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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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Don't do anything that someone else can do.
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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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A mistake is a future benefit, the full value of which is yet to be realized.
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