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Don't do anything that someone else can do.
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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Do not do anything that anyone else can do readily.
Edwin Land
Fifty years after we undertook to make the first synthetic polarizers we find them the essential layer in digital liquid-crystal. And thirty four years after we undertook to make the first instant camera and film, our kind of photography has become ubiquitous.
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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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Industry is best at the intersection of science and art.
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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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Marketing is what you do when your product is no good.
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The world belongs to the articulate.
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Someone is going to make your product obsolete. Make sure it's you.
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We took nothing from anybody. We gave a great deal to the world. The only thing keeping us alive is our brilliance. The only thing that keeps our brilliance alive is our patents.
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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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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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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.
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Colour is always a consequence, never a cause.
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The bottom line is in heaven!
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It's not that we need new ideas, but we need to stop having old ideas.
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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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It is a curious property of research activity that after the problem has been solved the solution seems obvious.
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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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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 Polaroid camera] places before you a thing that is more of the thing than the thing was.
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