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

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

We can be dramatic, even theatrical; we can be persuasive; but the message we are telling must be true.

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.

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.

Edwin H. Land

Of what meaning is the world without mind? The question cannot exist.

Edwin H. Land

In a few wretched buildings, we created a whole new industry with international significance.

Edwin H. Land

Half the time when he is telling the truth, it sounds like a joke, and that keeps people from believing him. He says the best way to keep a secret is to shout it from the housetops.

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.

Edwin H. Land

You always start with a fantasy.

Edwin H. Land

One of the best ways to keep a great secret is to shout it.

Edwin H. Land

If the world were prepared for it, it would not be much of an invention.

Edwin H. Land