Edwin Land Quotes

He will be successful who directs his actions according to the spirit of the times, and that he whose actions do not accord with the times will not be successful

The greatest danger in times of turbulence is not the turbulence; it is to act with yesterday's logic.

We might as well require a man to wear still the coat which fitted him as a boy as civilized society to remain ever under the regimen of their barbarous ancestors.

One who uses an ancient rule to govern the present does not necessarily see the changes that have taken place.

The one thing I do know is change is coming so quickly

We have to live today by what truth we can get today and be ready tomorrow to call it falsehood.

I don't think my principles change. I think the way in which you apply those principles to modern society changes.

Like the Elizabeth I play, Queen Elizabeth is a monarch who actually moves with the times. She gets new information, assimilates it, and changes in order the fit in with the way the world is moving. I admire that.

Nothing endures but change.

News organisations that have been around a while have a lot of traditions and ways of doing things that may have served them for many years but perhaps make them less flexible in the digital era. As an entrepreneur, it just makes more sense to start something new.

We are a party of innovation. We do not reject our traditions, but we are willing to adapt to changing circumstances, when change we must. We are willing to suffer the discomfort of change in order to achieve a better future.

The one who adapts his policy to the times prospers, and likewise that the one whose policy clashes with the demands of the times does not.

Everything changes.

I will adopt new views so fast as they shall appear to be true views.

The dogmas of the quiet past, are inadequate to the stormy present.

As I grow older, I have had to discard some ideas and policies because they no longer make sense. This strikes me as entirely healthy. I would invite others to do the same.

Adapt or Die

Why should we hesitate to toss the old views overboard.

The old order changeth, yielding place to new; And God fulfils himself in many ways, Lest one good custom should corrupt the world..

All Things Change (Omnium Rerum Vicissitudo)

will anything but fanaticism make for change? Wisdom and compromise come later.

You have to move forward. It's constantly changing. Everything changes and everything falls apart. You have to be nimble and on your toes and accessible to it all. Not everyone is on board with this.

Nothing is written stone, child. Even if it were, the stones can be shattered

You never build the perfect building. Only Allah is perfect. Life is such. You make decisions on conclusions, then some guy invents something else and the world changes. That's comforting. There's no one way to use museums, no one way to do art. That also means there is no one way to build museums.

Born often under another sky, placed in the middle of an always moving scene, himself driven by the irresistible torrent which draws all about him, the American has no time to tie himself to anything, he grows accustomed only to change, and ends by regarding it as the natural state of man. He feels the need of it, more he loves it; for the instability; instead of meaning disaster to him, seems to give birth only to miracles all about him.