Edwin Land

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

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

Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity.

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

Science is a method to keep yourself from kidding yourself.

My personal philosophy is not to undertake a project unless it is manifestly important and nearly impossible.

You cannot separate the composition from the life of the moment. It is all one thing, to be decided in a split second while you're living through it.

Any problem can be solved using the materials in the room.

Every creative act is a sudden cessation of stupidity.

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

[A Polaroid camera] places before you a thing that is more of the thing than the thing was.

This is the most exciting part of being human. It is using our brains in the highest way. Otherwise we are just healthy animals

Politeness is the poison of collaboration.

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

If you dream of something worth doing and then simply go to work on it and don't think anything of personalities, or emotional conflicts, or of money, or of family distractions; it is amazing how quickly you get through those 5,000 steps.

Its not that we need new ideas, but we need to stop having old ideas.