Edwin Land Quotes

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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…
• 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…
• Industry is best at the intersection of science and art.
• The second great product of industry should be the rewarding life for every person
• Do not do anything that anyone else can do readily.
• I believe quite simply that the small company of the future will be as much a research organization as it is a manufacturing company.
• 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…
• We have to keep in practice like musicians. Besides, there are still potentialities to be realized in color film. To us, it's just like bringing…
• We took on things which people might think would take a year or two. They weren't particularly hard. What was hard was believing they weren't…
• This is the most exciting part of being human. It is using our brains in the highest way. Otherwise we are just healthy animals
• 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…
• There is no such thing as group originality, group creativity or group perspicacity.
• Profundity and originality are attributes of single, if not singular, minds.
• 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…
• 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…
• 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.…
• A significant inventionmust be startling, unexpected. It must come to a world that is not prepared for it.
• The bottom line is in heaven!
• Intense concentration for hour after hour can bring out resources in people that they didn't know they had.
• A mistake is an event, the full benefit of which has not yet been turned to your advantage.

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