Edwin Land
Edwin Land
Edwin Herbert Land, ForMemRS, FRPS, Hon.MRIwas an American scientist and inventor, best known as the co-founder of the Polaroid Corporation. Among other things, he invented inexpensive filters for polarizing light, a practical system of in-camera instant photography, and his retinex theory of color vision. His Polaroid instant camera, which went on sale in late 1948, made it possible for a picture to be taken and developed in 60 seconds or less...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionScientist
Date of Birth7 May 1909
CityBridgeport, CT
CountryUnited States of America
The essential part of creativity is not being afraid to fail.
It's not that we need new ideas, but we need to stop having old ideas.
An essential aspect of creativity is not being afraid to fail.
Someone is going to make your product obsolete. Make sure it's you.
Science is a method to keep yourself from kidding yourself.
An invention that is quickly accepted will turn out to be a rather trivial alteration of something that has already existed.
Don't undertake a project unless it is manifestly important and nearly impossible.
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 Harvard Business School. It is: If anything is worth doing, it's worth doing to excess.
Marketing is what you do when your product is no good.
You must expect failure after failure after failure before you succeed.
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.
Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity.
Politeness is the poison of collaboration.