Quote

You always start with a fantasy. Part of the fantasy technique is to visualize something as perfect. Then with the experiments you work back from the fantasy to reality, hacking away at the components.

Edwin Land

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Edwin Land
Age: 81 †
Born: 1909
Born: May 7
Died: 1991
Died: March 1
Entrepreneur
Inventor
Photographer
Physicist
Bridgeport
Connecticut
Edwin Land
Edwin Herbert Land
E.H. Land
Reality
Hacking
Part
Components
Back
Experiments
Work
Technique
Something
Fantasy
Always
Start
Perfect
Away
Visualize

More quotes by Edwin Land

Image
I believe quite simply that the small company of the future will be as much a research organization as it is a manufacturing company.
Edwin Land
Image
The most important thing about power is to make sure you don't have to use it.
Edwin Land
Image
The world belongs to the articulate.
Edwin Land
Image
Our society is changing so rapidly that none of us can know what it is or where it is going.
Edwin Land
Image
Someone is going to make your product obsolete. Make sure it's you.
Edwin Land
Image
You cannot separate the composition from the life of the moment. It is all one thing, to be decided in a split second while you're living through it.
Edwin Land
Image
In a few wretched buildings, we created a whole new industry with international significance.
Edwin Land
Image
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
Image
I don't mind conducting the orchestra if I can play the violin.
Edwin Land
Image
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
Image
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.
Edwin Land
Image
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
Image
In this country, there is an opportunity for the development of man's intellectual, cultural, and spiritual potentialities that has never existed before in the history of our species. I mean not simply an opportunity for greatness for a few, but an opportunity for greatness for the many.
Edwin Land
Image
An invention that is quickly accepted will turn out to be a rather trivial alteration of something that has already existed.
Edwin Land
Image
Why do I want to believe what I believe?... Science, to put it somewhat vulgarly, is a technique to keep yourself from kidding yourself.
Edwin Land
Image
Industry is best at the intersection of science and art.
Edwin Land
Image
[A Polaroid camera] places before you a thing that is more of the thing than the thing was.
Edwin Land
Image
Don't do anything that someone else can do.
Edwin Land
Image
Do not do anything that anyone else can do readily.
Edwin Land
Image
The future may require not so much having a new idea as stopping having an old idea.
Edwin Land