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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
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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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We can be dramatic, even theatrical we can be persuasive but the message we are telling must be true.
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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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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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An essential aspect of creativity is not being afraid to fail.
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A mistake is an event, the full benefit of which has not yet been turned to your advantage.
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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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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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I believe that each young person is different from any other who has ever lived, as different as his fingerprints: that he could bring to the world a wonderful and special way of solving unsolved problems, that in his special way, he can be great.
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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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The first thing you do is teach the person to feel that the vision is very important and nearly impossible. That draws out the drive in the winner.
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A premature attempt to explain something that thrills you will destroy your perceptivity rather than increase it, because your tendency will be to explain away rather than seek out.
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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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