Marketing is what you do when your product is no good. Edwin Land More Quotes by Edwin Land More Quotes From Edwin Land Famous in our circles is the story of the visiting English banker who in 1948 upon seeing our model 95 camera commented, 'Very interesting, but why would one want a picture in a minute?' Edwin Land cameras circles interesting One of the best ways to keep a great secret is to shout it. Edwin Land best-way secret way Profundity and originality are attributes of single, if not singular, minds. Edwin Land originality individuality mind As I review the nature of the creative drive in the inventive scientists that have been around me, as well as in myself, I find the first event is an urge to make a significant intellectual contribution that can be tangible embodied in a product or process. Edwin Land creativity creative science We took on things which people might think would take a year or two. They weren't particularly hard. What was hard was believing they weren't hard. Edwin Land science believe thinking 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 bringing up a child. You don't stop after you've had it. Edwin Land color science children 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 organization science believe Do not do anything that anyone else can do readily. Edwin Land research can-do science The second great product of industry should be the rewarding life for every person Edwin Land should life science Industry is best at the intersection of science and art. Edwin Land accounts science art I have long aspired to make our company a noble prototype of industry, penetrating in science, reliable in engineering, creative in aesthetics and wholesomely prosperous in economics. Edwin Land engineering science long The first thing you do is teach the person to feel that the vision is very important and nearly impossible. That draws out the drive in the winner. Edwin Land inspirational-life vision important A significant inventionmust be startling, unexpected. It must come to a world that is not prepared for it. Edwin Land preparation acceptance science The bottom line is in heaven! Edwin Land lines business heaven All you have learned from history is old ways of making mistakes. There is nothing that history can tell you about what we must do tomorrow. Only what we must not do. Edwin Land mistake history way In my opinion, neither organisms nor organizations evolve slowly and surely into something better, but drift until some small change occurs which has immediate and overwhelming significance. The special role of the human being is not to wait for these favorable accidents but deliberately to introduce the small change that will have great significance. Edwin Land small-changes organization waiting I say that our system of tests and grades, as it now exists, is one source of the low yield of great men from our universities. The marking system is a traumatic experience from which most students emerge with a deep determination never to get into a situation where they can be marked again. They just won't ever again take a chance. Edwin Land determination education men In this country, there is an opportunity for the development of man's intellectual, cultural, and spiritual potentialities that has never existed before in the history of our species. I mean not simply an opportunity for greatness for a few, but an opportunity for greatness for the many. Edwin Land spiritual mean country 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 technique believe thinking If this is preparation for life, where in the world, where in the relationship with our colleagues, where in the industrial domain, where ever again, anywhere in life, is a person given this curious sequence of prepared talks and prepared questions, questions to which the answers are known? Edwin Land preparation answers thinking
