Quotes by Edwin Land

• Its 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.
• Any problem can be solved using the materials in the room.
• Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity.
• Don't undertake a project unless it is manifestly important and nearly impossible.
• 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.
• Marketing is what you do when your product is no good.
• Politeness is the poison of collaboration.
• Science is a method to keep yourself from kidding yourself.
• The most important thing about power is to make sure you don't have to use it.
• Every creative act is a sudden cessation of stupidity.
• Success is a science; if you have the conditions, you get the product.
• Success is just failure turned inside out; it smells better that way.
• Success is simply a matter of how high you bounce after hitting the bottom.