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Someone is going to make your product obsolete. Make sure it's you.

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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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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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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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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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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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I believe that each young person is different from any other who has ever lived, as different as his fingerprints: that he could bring to the world a wonderful and special way of solving unsolved problems, that in his special way, he can be great.
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Anything worth doing is worth doing to excess.
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A mistake is a future benefit, the full value of which is yet to be realized.
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Colour is always a consequence, never a cause.
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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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Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity.
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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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A significant inventionmust be startling, unexpected. It must come to a world that is not prepared for it.
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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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Industry is best at the intersection of science and art.
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Politeness is the poison of collaboration.
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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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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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A premature attempt to explain something that thrills you will destroy your perceptivity rather than increase it, because your tendency will be to explain away rather than seek out.
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An essential aspect of creativity is not being afraid to fail.
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