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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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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.
Edwin Land
Do not do anything that anyone else can do readily.
Edwin Land
You always start with a fantasy. Part of the fantasy technique is to visualize something as perfect. Then with the experiments you work back from the fantasy to reality, hacking away at the components.
Edwin Land
Profundity and originality are attributes of single, if not singular, minds.
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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.
Edwin Land
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.
Edwin Land
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.
Edwin Land
An invention that is quickly accepted will turn out to be a rather trivial alteration of something that has already existed.
Edwin Land
The most important thing about power is to make sure you don't have to use it.
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We can be dramatic, even theatrical we can be persuasive but the message we are telling must be true.
Edwin Land
An essential aspect of creativity is not being afraid to fail.
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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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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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A significant inventionmust be startling, unexpected. It must come to a world that is not prepared for it.
Edwin Land
We took nothing from anybody. We gave a great deal to the world. The only thing keeping us alive is our brilliance. The only thing that keeps our brilliance alive is our patents.
Edwin Land
Don't do anything that someone else can do.
Edwin Land
It only takes a day to change someone from an anti-intellectual to an intellectual by persuading him that he might be one!
Edwin Land
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.
Edwin Land
Our society is changing so rapidly that none of us can know what it is or where it is going.
Edwin Land
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.
Edwin Land
