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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.
Edwin Land
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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
Edwin Land
Edwin Herbert Land
E.H. Land
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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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The world belongs to the articulate.
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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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It is a curious property of research activity that after the problem has been solved the solution seems obvious. This is true not only for those who have not previously been acquainted with the problem, but also for those who have worked over it for years.
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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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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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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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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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We can be dramatic, even theatrical we can be persuasive but the message we are telling must be true.
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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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Marketing is what you do when your product is no good.
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Profundity and originality are attributes of single, if not singular, minds.
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Science is a method to keep yourself from kidding yourself.
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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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Politeness is the poison of collaboration.
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