The most important thing about power is to make sure you don't have to use it. — Edwin Land Copy Share Image
My motto is very personal and may not fit anyone else or any other company. It is: Don't do anything that someone… — Edwin Land Copy Share Image
Don't undertake a project unless it is manifestly important and nearly impossible. — Edwin Land Copy Share Image
Work only on problems that are manifestly important and seem to be nearly impossible to solve. That way you will have a… — Edwin Land Copy Share Image
The first thing you do is teach the person to feel that the vision is very important and nearly impossible. That draws… — Edwin Land Copy Share Image
If you are able to state a problem - any problem - and if it is important enough, then the problem can… — Edwin Land Copy Share Image
We have to keep in practice like musicians. Besides, there are still potentialities to be realized in color film. To us, it's just like… — Edwin Land Copy Share Image
It only takes a day to change someone from an anti-intellectual to an intellectual by persuading him that he might be one! — Edwin Land Copy Share Image
Why do I want to believe what I believe?... Science, to put it somewhat vulgarly, is a technique to keep yourself from kidding yourself. — Edwin Land Copy Share Image
Who can object to a monopoly when any new company, if it is built around a scientific nucleus, can create a new monopoly of… — Edwin Land Copy Share Image
I believe that each young person is different from any other who has ever lived, as different as his fingerprints: that he could bring… — Edwin Land Copy Share Image
There is no such thing as group originality, group creativity or group perspicacity. — Edwin Land Copy Share Image
A significant invention must be startling, unexpected. It must come to a world that is not prepared for it. — Edwin Land Copy Share Image
I believe quite simply that the small company of the future will be as much a research organization as it is a manufacturing company. — Edwin Land Copy Share Image
A premature attempt to explain something that thrills you will destroy your perceptivity rather than increase it, because your tendency will be to explain… — Edwin Land Copy Share Image
