Edwin Land Quotes

You can never plan the future by the past.

You have to get a little untrapped from too much prior knowledge.

The thing about it is, I'm one of these people that if you're not getting anywhere, you gotta change it up, and you gotta ask more questions.

Learning and innovation go hand in hand. The arrogance of success is to think that what you did yesterday will be sufficient for tomorrow.

We are now at a point where we must educate our children in what no one knew yesterday, and prepare our schools for what no one knows yet.

Education is the passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today.

Don't let what you don't know scare you, because it can become your greatest asset. And if you do things without knowing how they have always been done, you're guaranteed to do them differently.

The American Dream can no more remain static than can the American nation.... We cannot any longer take an old approach to world problems. They aren't the same problems. It isn't the same world. We must not adopt the methods of our ancestors; instead, we must emulate that pioneer quality in our ancestors that made them attempt new methods for a New World.

My countrymen: we have reached a turning point in our history. The choice is yours. Shall we venture into this brave new world, bright with possibilities, or retreat to the safety of our familiar but sterile past? I am for crossing the frontier.

It’s education that’s meant to take us into this future that we can’t grasp.

IF you are not making mistakes, then you are not doing anything.

All too often, we do smart things only after exhausting every conceivable dumb thing we could have done.

I am all for changing, even if mistakes are made in the process. Mistakes do not matter.

It is proverbial, of course, that man never learns from history, and, as a rule, in respect to a problem of the present, it can teach us simply nothing. The new must be made through untrodden regions, without suppositions, and often, unfortunately, without piety also.

Just because something is traditional is no reason to do it, of course.

"Knowledge is the frontier of tomorrow."

In a time of drastic change, it is the learners who inherit the future.

There's always a risk if you don't do things the way you've done things before.

Education is the foundation upon which we build our future.

There's nothing I believe in more strongly than getting young people interested in science and engineering, for a better tomorrow, for all humankind.

When you're in school, every little mistake is a permanent crack in your windshield. But in the real world, if you're not swerving around and hitting the guard rails every now and then, you're not going fast enough. Your biggest risk isn't failing; it's getting too comfortable.

As I say to our own team: 'Never protect your past, never define yourself by a single product, and always continue to steward for the long-term. Keep moving towards the future.'

The speed of change makes you wonder what will become of architecture.

If you're not failing every now and again, it's a sign you're not doing anything very innovative.

In a world that is constantly changing, there is no one subject or set of subjects that will serve you for the foreseeable future, let alone for the rest of your life. The most important skill to acquire now is learning how to learn.