Edwin Land Quotes

An essential aspect of creativity is not being afraid to fail.

It's not that we need new ideas, but we need to stop having old ideas.

Someone is going to make your product obsolete. Make sure it's you.

My motto is very personal and may not fit anyone else or any other company. It is: Don't do anything that someone else can do. Don't undertake a project unless it is manifestly important and nearly impossible.

Any problem can be solved as long as it is stated properly.

Industry is best at the intersection of science and art.

Marketing is what you do when your product is no good.

A mistake is a future benefit, the full value of which is yet to be realized.

Don't undertake a project unless it is manifestly important and nearly impossible.

[The Polaroid camera is] a system that will be a partner in perception, enabling us to see the objects in the world around us more vividly than we can see them without it, a system to be an aid to memory and a tool for exploration.

Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity.

You must expect failure after failure after failure before you succeed.

Intense concentration for hour after hour can bring out resources in people that they didn't know they had.

A mistake is an event, the full benefit of which has not yet been turned to your advantage.

The present is the past biting into the future.

Politeness is the poison of collaboration.

You always start with a fantasy. Part of the fantasy technique is to visualize something as perfect. Then with the experiments you work back from the fantasy to reality, hacking away at the components.

Science is a method to keep yourself from kidding yourself.

Don't do anything that someone else can do.

A significant inventionmust be startling, unexpected. It must come to a world that is not prepared for it.

The process must be concealed from - non-existent for - the photographer, who by definition need think of the art in the taking and not in the making photographs... In short, all that should be necessary to get a good picture is to take a good picture.

We live in a world changing so rapidly that what we mean frequently by common sense is doing the thing that would have been right last year.

There's a rule they don't teach you at the Harvard Business School. It is, if anything is worth doing, it's worth doing to excess.

The most important thing about power is to make sure you don't have to use it.

The second great product of industry should be the rewarding life for every person