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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
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Bridgeport
Connecticut
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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 can be dramatic, even theatrical we can be persuasive but the message we are telling must be true.
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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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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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A mistake is an event, the full benefit of which has not yet been turned to your advantage.
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Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity.
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The bottom line is in heaven!
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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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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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Colour is always a consequence, never a cause.
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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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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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Science is a method to keep yourself from kidding yourself.
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Industry is best at the intersection of science and art.
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Do not do anything that anyone else can do readily.
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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 world belongs to the articulate.
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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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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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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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