104 Quotes by Edwin Land

I believe that each young person is different from any other who has ever lived, as different as his fingerprints: that he could bring to the world a wonderful and special way of solving unsolved problems, that in his special way, he can be great.

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

As I visualize it, the business of the future will be a scientific, social and economic unit. It will be vigorously creative in pure science where its contributions will compare with those of the universities.

The world belongs to the articulate.

The first thing you do is teach the person to feel that the vision is very important and nearly impossible. That draws out the drive in the winner.

Anything worth doing is worth doing to excess.

We took on things which people might think would take a year or two. They weren't particularly hard. What was hard was believing they weren't hard.

We have to keep in practice like musicians. Besides, there are still potentialities to be realized in color film. To us, it's just like bringing up a child. You don't stop after you've had it.

It is a curious property of research activity that after the problem has been solved the solution seems obvious. This is true not only for those who have not previously been acquainted with the problem, but also for those who have worked over it for years.