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Famous Edwin Land Quotes
“You must expect failure after failure after failure before you succeed.”
“One of the best ways to keep a great secret is to shout it.”
“Our society is changing so rapidly that none of us can know what it is or where it is going.”
“[A Polaroid camera] places before you a thing that is more of the thing than the thing was.”
“I don't mind conducting the orchestra if I can play the violin.”
Source: Generation of Greatness: The Idea of a University in an Age of Science
“In a few wretched buildings, we created a whole new industry with international significance.”
“Any problem can be solved as long as it is stated properly.”
“The future may require not so much having a new idea as stopping having an old idea.”
“A mistake is a future benefit, the full value of which is yet to be realized.”
“Someone is going to make your product obsolete. Make sure it's you.”
“An essential aspect of creativity is not being afraid to fail.”