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We can be dramatic, even theatrical we can be persuasive but the message we are telling must be true.

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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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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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Why do I want to believe what I believe?... Science, to put it somewhat vulgarly, is a technique to keep yourself from kidding yourself.
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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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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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A mistake is an event, the full benefit of which has not yet been turned to your advantage.
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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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Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity.
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Marketing is what you do when your product is no good.
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In this country, there is an opportunity for the development of man's intellectual, cultural, and spiritual potentialities that has never existed before in the history of our species. I mean not simply an opportunity for greatness for a few, but an opportunity for greatness for the many.
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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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An essential aspect of creativity is not being afraid to fail.
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Industry is best at the intersection of science and art.
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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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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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Profundity and originality are attributes of single, if not singular, minds.
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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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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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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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Do not do anything that anyone else can do readily.
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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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