We took nothing from anybody. We gave a great deal to the world. The only thing keeping us alive is our brilliance. The only thing that keeps our brilliance alive is our patents. Edwin Land More Quotes by Edwin Land More Quotes From Edwin Land The most important thing about power is to make sure you don't have to use it. Edwin Land important power use If you sense a deep human need, then you go back to all the basic science. If there is some missing, then you try to do more basic science and applied science until you get it. So you make the system to fulfill that need, rather than starting the other way around, where you have something and wonder what to do with it. Edwin Land missing trying needs In a few wretched buildings, we created a whole new industry with international significance. Edwin Land international significance building The role of science is to be systematic, to be accurate, to be orderly, but it certainly is not to imply that the aggregated, successful hypotheses of the past have the kind of truth that goes into a number system. Edwin Land successful numbers past There's a tremendous popular fallacy which holds that significant research can be carried out by trying things. Actually it is easy to show that in general no significant problem can be solved empirically, except for accidents so rare as to be statistically unimportant. One of my jests is to say that we work empirically -- we use bull's eye empiricism. We try everything, but we try the right thing first! Edwin Land eye trying firsts Don't do anything that someone else can do. Edwin Land can-do Photography is unlike any other art form. In the other arts there is always a continuous interplay between the artist and his art. He has the painting or sculpture before him. What we have tried to do is to provide a medium for "artistic expression" to anyone with only a reasonable amount of time. By giving him a camera system with which he need only control his selection of focus, composition and lighting, we free him to select the moment and to criticize immediately what he has done. We enable him to see what else he wants to do on the basis of what he has just learned. Edwin Land photography expression art Our society is changing so rapidly that none of us can know what it is or where it is going. Edwin Land our-society knows 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. Edwin Land different special believe I don't mind conducting the orchestra if I can play the violin. Edwin Land orchestra mind play You think that the only thing that counts is the bottom line! What a presumptuous thing to say. The bottom line is in heaven. Edwin Land lines heaven thinking Look, if the picture you get instantly is as beautiful as the picture you get by waiting seven days, then it is absolute madness to say that there is virtue in waiting. Edwin Land photography waiting beautiful Who can object to a monopoly when any new company, if it is built around a scientific nucleus, can create a new monopoly of its own by creating a wholly new field? Edwin Land nucleus creating fields A mistake is a future benefit, the full value of which is yet to be realized. Edwin Land values benefits mistake The future may require not so much having a new idea as stopping having an old idea. Edwin Land stopping may ideas [A Polaroid camera] places before you a thing that is more of the thing than the thing was. Edwin Land polaroids cameras It only takes a day to change someone from an anti-intellectual to an intellectual by persuading him that he might be one! Edwin Land persuading intellectual might The present is the past biting into the future. Edwin Land biting past 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... Edwin Land economic creative social The world belongs to the articulate. Edwin Land world
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