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
Over the years, I have learned that every significant invention has several characteristics. By definition it must be startling, unexpected, and must come into a world that is not prepared for it. If the world were prepared for it, it would not be much of an invention.
You must expect failure after failure after failure before you succeed.
Politeness is the poison of collaboration.
Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity.
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.
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.
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.
This is the most exciting part of being human. It is using our brains in the highest way. Otherwise we are just healthy animals
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.
Don't undertake a project unless it is manifestly important and nearly impossible.
Someone is going to make your product obsolete. Make sure it's you.
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.