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.
You always start with a fantasy. Edwin H. Land
You always start with a fantasy.
It only takes a day to change someone from an anti-intellectual to an intellectual by persuading him that he might be one! Edwin H. Land
It only takes a day to change someone from an anti-intellectual to an intellectual by persuading him that he might be one!
Don't do anything that someone else can do. Don't undertake a project unless it is manifestly important and nearly impossible. Edwin H. Land
Don't do anything that someone else can do. Don't undertake a project unless it is manifestly important and nearly impossible.
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 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.
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.
If the world were prepared for it, it would not be much of an invention. Edwin H. Land
If the world were prepared for it, it would not be much of an invention.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Our society is changing so rapidly that none of us can know what it is or where it is going. Edwin H. Land
Our society is changing so rapidly that none of us can know what it is or where it is going.