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Profundity and originality are attributes of single, if not singular, minds.

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Edwin Land
Age: 81 †
Born: 1909
Born: May 7
Died: 1991
Died: March 1
Entrepreneur
Inventor
Photographer
Physicist
Bridgeport
Connecticut
Edwin Land
Edwin Herbert Land
E.H. Land
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Originality

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Do not do anything that anyone else can do readily.
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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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An invention that is quickly accepted will turn out to be a rather trivial alteration of something that has already existed.
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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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Science is a method to keep yourself from kidding yourself.
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A mistake is a future benefit, the full value of which is yet to be realized.
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An essential aspect of creativity is not being afraid to fail.
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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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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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[A Polaroid camera] places before you a thing that is more of the thing than the thing was.
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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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Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity.
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