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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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Photographer
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Bridgeport
Connecticut
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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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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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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 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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Do not do anything that anyone else can do readily.
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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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Science is a method to keep yourself from kidding yourself.
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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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A mistake is an event, the full benefit of which has not yet been turned to your advantage.
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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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The bottom line is in heaven!
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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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The world belongs to the articulate.
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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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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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It is a curious property of research activity that after the problem has been solved the solution seems obvious.
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Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity.
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Someone is going to make your product obsolete. Make sure it's you.
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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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