Landisms

• Author: Ronald K. Fierstein
• Profession: Lawyer on the team of litigators from the prestigious patent law firm of Fish & Neave
• Pages: 9-9

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LANDISMS

“If you are able to state a problem . . . then the problem can be solved.”

—Life, October 27, 1972

“Every creative act is a sudden cessation of stupidity.”

—Forbes, June 1, 1975

“Optimism is a moral duty.”

—Fortune, January 1974, p. 83

“The only thing that keeps us alive is our brilliance. The only thing

protecting our brilliance is our patents.”

—Newsweek, May 10, 1976, p. 86

“There’s a rule they don’t teach you at Harvard Business School: if

anything is worth doing, it’s worth doing to excess.”

—The New York Times, April 27, 1977

“Do not undertake a program unless the goal is manifestly important

and its achievement is nearly impossible.”

—Land’s Polaroid, Peter C. Wensberg, p. 170 (Houghton Mifflin 1987)

“If you are right, the facts at the moment don’t matter because in due

course the facts will catch up with you.”

—Popular Photography, October 1977

A worthwhile invention “must be startling, unexpected and must

come into a world that is not prepared for it.”

—The New York Times, May 15, 1983

“What the physical sciences teach the social sciences is how to fail

without a sense of guilt.”

—Boston Globe, October 18, 1976

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