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I don't mind conducting the orchestra if I can play the violin.

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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
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Edwin Herbert Land
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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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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.
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[A Polaroid camera] places before you a thing that is more of the thing than the thing was.
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Look, if the picture you get instantly is as beautiful as the picture you get by waiting seven days, then it is absolute madness to say that there is virtue in waiting.
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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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Do not do anything that anyone else can do readily.
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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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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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I believe each incoming freshman [in college] must be started at once on his own research project if we are to preserve his secret dream of greatness and make it come true.
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Anything worth doing is worth doing to excess.
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Colour is always a consequence, never a cause.
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The world belongs to the articulate.
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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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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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Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity.
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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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Marketing is what you do when your product is no good.
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