Edwin Land's Quotes

An essential aspect of creativity is not being afraid to fail.

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.

Don't undertake a project unless it is manifestly important and nearly impossible.

Marketing is what you do when your product is no good.

It's not that we need new ideas, but we need to stop having old ideas.

Politeness is the poison of collaboration.

The most important thing about power is to make sure you don't have to use it.

Any problem can be solved using the materials in the room.

Science is a method to keep yourself from kidding yourself.

I'm a graduate of Princeton, and I just want to say you don't have to go to an Ivy League school to be on the Supreme Court.

Baptists are very strong believers that the civil magistrate is ordained by God to punish those who do evil.

Social conservatives say who drives the bus.

The president took the advice of my East Texas grandmother: If you can skin a cat without getting the room all bloody, why not do it that way?

I am both stunned and appalled that Pat Robertson would claim to know the mind of God concerning whether particular events... were the judgments of God.