Innovation Quote by Edwin Land

A significant inventionmust be startling, unexpected. It must come to a world that is not prepared for it.

— Edwin Land

“Every significant invention must be startling, unexpected, and must come into a world that is not prepared for it. If the world were prepared…

— Anonymous

Over the years, I have learned that every significant invention has several characteristics. By definition it must be startling, unexpected, and must come into…

— Edwin Land

Necessity, they say, is mother of invention, but fear, too, is not barren of ingenious suggestions.

— Joseph Conrad

The discovery of an important need is almost as important as the invention which satisfies this need.

— Mihajlo Idvorski Pupin

Every invention was borne out of impossible. So impossible does not exist in the world of development.

— Anonymous

An invention that is quickly accepted will turn out to be a rather trivial alteration of something that has already existed.

— Edwin Land

Invention is the mother of necessity.

— Thorstein Veblen

“Finding WHY is a process of discovery, not invention.”

— Simon Sinek

Necessity, mother of invention.

— William Wycherley

Necessity, the mother of invention.

— Anonymous

An invention has to make sense in the world it finishes in, not in the world it started.

— Tim O'Reilly