Edwin Land Quotes
Top 48 wise famous quotes and sayings by Edwin Land
Edwin Land Famous Quotes & Sayings
Discover top inspirational quotes from Edwin Land on Wise Famous Quotes.
I believe quite simply that the small company of the future will be as much a research organization as it is a manufacturing company.
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.
A significant inventionmust be startling, unexpected. It must come to a world that is not prepared for it.
You think that the only thing that counts is the bottom line! What a presumptuous thing to say. The bottom line is in heaven.
We can be dramatic, even theatrical; we can be persuasive; but the message we are telling must be true.
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.
Intense concentration for hour after hour can bring out resources in people that they didn't know they had.
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.
I submit to you that when in each man the dream of personal greatness dies, democracy loses the real source of its future strength.
It is a curious property of research activity that after the problem has been solved the solution seems obvious.
True creativity is characterized by a succession of acts each dependent on the one before and suggesting the one after.
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!
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.
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.
It only takes a day to change someone from an anti-intellectual to an intellectual by persuading him that he might be one!
This is the most exciting part of being human. It is using our brains in the highest way. Otherwise we are just healthy animals
If you are able to state a problem - any problem - and if it is important enough, then the problem can be solved,
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.