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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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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
Why do I want to believe what I believe?... Science, to put it somewhat vulgarly, is a technique to keep yourself from kidding yourself.
Edwin Land
Industry is best at the intersection of science and art.
Edwin Land
Don't do anything that someone else can do.
Edwin Land
Work only on problems that are manifestly important and seem to be nearly impossible to solve. That way you will have a natural market for your product and no competition.
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
A significant inventionmust be startling, unexpected. It must come to a world that is not prepared for it.
Edwin Land
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.
Edwin Land
You cannot separate the composition from the life of the moment. It is all one thing, to be decided in a split second while you're living through it.
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A mistake is an event, the full benefit of which has not yet been turned to your advantage.
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!
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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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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
Science is a method to keep yourself from kidding yourself.
Edwin Land
Do not do anything that anyone else can do readily.
Edwin Land
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.
Edwin Land
I don't mind conducting the orchestra if I can play the violin.
Edwin Land
A mistake is a future benefit, the full value of which is yet to be realized.
Edwin Land
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.
Edwin Land
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
