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Colour is always a consequence, never a cause.

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Edwin Land
Age: 81 †
Born: 1909
Born: May 7
Died: 1991
Died: March 1
Entrepreneur
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Photographer
Physicist
Bridgeport
Connecticut
Edwin Land
Edwin Herbert Land
E.H. Land
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Consequence
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It is a curious property of research activity that after the problem has been solved the solution seems obvious.
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Someone is going to make your product obsolete. Make sure it's you.
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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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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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A significant inventionmust be startling, unexpected. It must come to a world that is not prepared for it.
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An essential aspect of creativity is not being afraid to fail.
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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.
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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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A mistake is a future benefit, the full value of which is yet to be realized.
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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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Anything worth doing is worth doing to excess.
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Politeness is the poison of collaboration.
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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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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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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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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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Do not do anything that anyone else can do readily.
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