Edwin Herbert Land (May 7, 1909 – March 1, 1991) was an American scientist and inventor.
He is best known as the co-founder of the Polaroid Corporation.
Science is a method to keep yourself from kidding yourself. Edwin H. Land
Science is a method to keep yourself from kidding yourself.
An essential aspect of creativity is not being afraid to fail. Edwin H. Land
An essential aspect of creativity is not being afraid to fail.
It's not that we need new ideas, but we need to stop having old ideas. Edwin H. Land
It's not that we need new ideas, but we need to stop having old ideas.
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 H. 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.
Now, partly that was work, and partly that was brains, but very largely it was having the guts, the guts to be immodest in the right way. Edwin H. Land
Now, partly that was work, and partly that was brains, but very largely it was having the guts, the guts to be immodest in the right way.
Over the years, I have learned that every significant invention has several characteristics. By definition it must be startling, unexpected, and must come into a world that is not prepared for it. Edwin H. Land
Over the years, I have learned that every significant invention has several characteristics. By definition it must be startling, unexpected, and must come into a world that is not prepared for it.
Of what meaning is the world without mind? The question cannot exist. Edwin H. Land
Of what meaning is the world without mind? The question cannot exist.
There's a rule they don't teach you at the Harvard Business School. It is, if anything is worth doing, it's worth doing to excess. Edwin H. Land
There's a rule they don't teach you at the Harvard Business School. It is, if anything is worth doing, it's worth doing to excess.
Politeness is the slow poison of collaboration. Edwin H. Land
Politeness is the slow poison of collaboration.
The search for that language, the search for the ways to tell young people what we know as we grow older — the permanent and wonderful things about life — will be one of the great functions of this system. Edwin H. Land
The search for that language, the search for the ways to tell young people what we know as we grow older — the permanent and wonderful things about life — will be one of the great functions of this system.
My whole life has been spent trying to teach people that intense concentration for hour after hour can bring out in people resources they didn't know they had. Edwin H. Land
My whole life has been spent trying to teach people that intense concentration for hour after hour can bring out in people resources they didn't know they had.
There is no tremor in what we call the "outside world" that is not locked by a thousand chains and gossamers to inner structures that vibrate and move with it and are a part of it. Edwin H. Land
There is no tremor in what we call the "outside world" that is not locked by a thousand chains and gossamers to inner structures that vibrate and move with it and are a part of it.
