Edwin Land Quotes

Invention is by its very nature disruptive. If you want to be understood at all times, then don't do anything new.

This would only come if you have a revolutionary change in technology like the jet brought about.

There is this permanent hope in America that there is some new technology around the corner that will change the world.

Disruption is a critical element of the evolution of technology - from the positive and negative aspects of disruption a typical pattern emerges, as new technologies come to market and subsequently take hold.

True disruption means threatening your existing product line and your past investments. Breakthrough products disrupt current lines of businesses.

One new feature or fresh take can change everything.

I'm interested in things that change the world or that affect the future and wondrous, new technology where you see it, and you're like, 'Wow, how did that even happen? How is that possible?'

The innovation is going to come, and that is good for everybody.

I won't even try to predict the specifics, but I think the ebook - as a medium - could be a game-changer.

Once, even the simple metal needle challenged the conventional thinking of a time.

It's easy to think that craft can't change but important to remember that all craft process was at some point new, at some point challenged convention - not to be contrary, but enabled by some breakthrough, some newly discovered principle, or sometimes some wonderful accident.

Every once in a while, a new technology, an old problem, and a big idea turn into an innovation.

On the day he unveiled the Macintosh, a reporter from Popular Science asked Jobs what type of market research he had done. Jobs responded by scoffing, "Did Alexander Graham Bell do any market research before he invented the telephone?

Shun the incremental and go for the leap.

Invention and entrepreneurship isn't about pure technology. Most people take whatever they see in front of them and relate it to something they understand. For at least ten years after Ford started building cars, people called them horseless carriages. It wasn't obvious to call it a car. They used to call the radio 'the wireless.' Innovation is much more about changing people and their perceptions and their attitudes and their willingness to accept change than it is about physics and engineering.

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

Innovation doesn't care about anyone.

Sometimes we do get taken by surprise. For example, when the Internet came along, we had it as a fifth or sixth priority.

Any time where the delta b/w what is possible and how things work today is at its widest, that's an opportunity to go build new technology.

Technology by default became the thing that was a new thing that had swept in and was altering it everything.

Every once in a while, a revolutionary product comes along that changes everything.

If it's not broken, break it. That's how new discoveries are made. That's why everything that changes life is called a breakthrough.

The paperless office is possible, but not by imitating paper. Note that the horseless carriage did not work by imitating horses.

Science is not about status quo. It's about revolution.

Whenever we have seen a crevice in the crust of convention, we have called attention to it, because we have hoped for a force underneath, which will someday come to light.