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Don't undertake a project unless it is manifestly important and nearly impossible. — Edwin Land

There is no such thing as group originality, group creativity or group perspicacity. — Edwin Land

The second great product of industry should be the rewarding life for every person — Edwin Land

Profundity and originality are attributes of single, if not singular, minds. — Edwin Land

And without fear the lawless roads Ran wrong through all the land. — Edwin Muir

I believe quite simply that the small company of the future will be as much a research organization as it is a manufacturing company. — Edwin Land

A mistake is an event, the full benefit of which has not yet been turned to your advantage. — Edwin Land

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. — Edwin Land

Any problem can be solved as long as it is stated properly. — Edwin Land

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

Translated poetry filled the no-man's-land between my own work and other writers', and I found this fascinating to explore. — Edwin Morgan

Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity. — Edwin Land

Our society is changing so rapidly that none of us can know what it is or where it is going. — Edwin Land

Colour is always a consequence, never a cause. — Edwin Land

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 hard. — Edwin Land

Industry is best at the intersection of science and art. — Edwin Land

Politeness is the poison of collaboration. — Edwin Land

Intense concentration for hour after hour can bring out resources in people that they didn't know they had. — Edwin Land

The present is the past biting into the future. — Edwin Land

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. — Edwin Land

One of the best ways to keep a great secret is to shout it. — Edwin Land

We can be dramatic, even theatrical; we can be persuasive; but the message we are telling must be true. — Edwin Land

Do not do anything that anyone else can do readily. — Edwin Land

You think that the only thing that counts is the bottom line! What a presumptuous thing to say. The bottom line is in heaven. — Edwin Land

Marketing is what you do when your product is no good. — Edwin H. Land

I submit to you that when in each man the dream of personal greatness dies, democracy loses the real source of its future strength. — Edwin Land

The future may require not so much having a new idea as stopping having an old idea. — Edwin Land

A significant inventionmust be startling, unexpected. It must come to a world that is not prepared for it. — Edwin Land

It is a curious property of research activity that after the problem has been solved the solution seems obvious. — Edwin Land

True creativity is characterized by a succession of acts each dependent on the one before and suggesting the one after. — Edwin Land

You must expect failure after failure after failure before you succeed. — Edwin Land

There's no scientist I know who wouldn't rather be a charlatan. And when circumstances allow you to be both, why it's great fun! — Edwin Land

It only takes a day to change someone from an anti-intellectual to an intellectual by persuading him that he might be one! — Edwin Land

The most important thing about power is to make sure you don't have to use it. — Edwin Land

The bottom line is in heaven! — Edwin Land

In a few wretched buildings, we created a whole new industry with international significance. — Edwin Land

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. — Edwin Land

An essential aspect of creativity is not being afraid to fail. — Edwin Land

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. — Edwin Land

A mistake is a future benefit, the full value of which is yet to be realized. — Edwin Land

Science is a method to keep yourself from kidding yourself. — Edwin Land

The world belongs to the articulate. — Edwin Land

It's not that we need new ideas, but we need to stop having old ideas. — Edwin Land

Any problem can be solved using the materials in the room. — Edwin Land

If you are able to state a problem - any problem - and if it is important enough, then the problem can be solved, — Edwin Land

I don't mind conducting the orchestra if I can play the violin. — Edwin Land

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. — Edwin Land

An invention that is quickly accepted will turn out to be a rather trivial alteration of something that has already existed. — Edwin Land

This is the most exciting part of being human. It is using our brains in the highest way. Otherwise we are just healthy animals — Edwin Land

Don't do anything that someone else can do. — Edwin Land

[A Polaroid camera] places before you a thing that is more of the thing than the thing was. — Edwin Land