The very essence of democracy is the absolute faith that while people must cooperate, the first function of democracy, its peculiar gift, is to develop each individual into everything that he might be.
Edwin Land
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If you are able to state a problem - any problem - and if it is important enough, then the problem can be solved.
Edwin Land
Look, if the picture you get instantly is as beautiful as the picture you get by waiting seven days, then it is absolute madness to say that there is virtue in waiting.
Edwin Land
An invention that is quickly accepted will turn out to be a rather trivial alteration of something that has already existed.
Edwin Land
A significant inventionmust be startling, unexpected. It must come to a world that is not prepared for it.
Edwin Land
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
