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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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A mistake is a future benefit, the full value of which is yet to be realized.
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Someone is going to make your product obsolete. Make sure it's you.
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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.
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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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It's not that we need new ideas, but we need to stop having old ideas.
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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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Anything worth doing is worth doing to excess.
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Industry is best at the intersection of science and art.
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The world belongs to the articulate.
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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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It is a curious property of research activity that after the problem has been solved the solution seems obvious.
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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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Profundity and originality are attributes of single, if not singular, minds.
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Don't do anything that someone else can do.
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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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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.
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