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A significant inventionmust be startling, unexpected. It must come to a world that is not prepared for it.
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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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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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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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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The future may require not so much having a new idea as stopping having an old idea.
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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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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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Profundity and originality are attributes of single, if not singular, minds.
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The world belongs to the articulate.
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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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Marketing is what you do when your product is no good.
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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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In a few wretched buildings, we created a whole new industry with international significance.
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Look, if the picture you get instantly is as beautiful as the picture you get by waiting seven days, then it is absolute madness to say that there is virtue in waiting.
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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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Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity.
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Do not do anything that anyone else can do readily.
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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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Politeness is the poison of collaboration.
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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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