Edwin Land Quotes

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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…
• There's a rule they don't teach you at Harvard Business School. It is: If anything is worth doing, it's worth doing to excess.
• 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…
• 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.
• If you are able to state a problem - any problem - and if it is important enough, then the problem can be solved,
• 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…
• The most important thing about power is to make sure you don't have to use it.
• 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…
• You think that the only thing that counts is the bottom line! What a presumptuous thing to say. The bottom line is in heaven.
• True creativity is characterized by a succession of acts each dependent on the one before and suggesting the one after.
• Colour is always a consequence, never a cause.
• If this is preparation for life, where in the world, where in the relationship with our colleagues, where in the industrial domain, where ever again,…
• Why do I want to believe what I believe?... Science, to put it somewhat vulgarly, is a technique to keep yourself from kidding yourself.
• ...from this day forward until the day you are buried, do two things each day. First, master a difficult old insight, and second, add some…
• An essential aspect of creativity is not being afraid to fail.
• If you dream of something worth doing and then simply go to work on it and don't think anything of personalities, or emotional conflicts, or…
• Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity.
• Don't undertake a project unless it is manifestly important and nearly impossible.
• Marketing is what you do when your product is no good.
• It's not that we need new ideas, but we need to stop having old ideas.

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