Edwin Land Quotes

Coming up with a way to fix mistakes challenges your creativity and your critical thinking skills and your resourcefulness. Often you end up with something better than what you planned on in the first place.

Usually, the best ideas come from having to fix a really hard problem.

Anytime you put a challenge out there, people come up with a creative solution on the software side.

When you have an employee who's innovative in your organization, what are they thinking about in the shower? If they're working in an exciting place, they're not thinking what they're going to do over the weekend. They're thinking: 'How do I solve that problem?'

Sometimes a problem will seem completely insurmountable. Then someone comes up with a simple new idea, or just a rearrangement of old ideas, that completely eliminates it.

We are all innovators, we all like to use our imagination, which is our greatest tool.

I just like having creative solutions to tricky situations.

I apply the term 'creativity' broadly... it's problem solving. We are all faced with problems, and we have to address them and think of something new, and that's where creativity comes in.

Creativity was born out of necessity because I didn't have many things to play with.

There is always a way out for those clever enough to find it.

The person with just one good idea is a thousand times better off than the person with no good ideas.

To me, very much of what is artistic is people's very creative and inventive ways out of impossible situations.

Creativity is the process of having original ideas that have value. It is a process; it's not random.

Creativity requires input, and that's what research is. You're gathering material with which to build.

A disaster where marble has been substituted for imagination.

The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.

In science, one should use all available resources to solve difficult problems. One of our most powerful resources is the insight of our colleagues.

Sometimes big problems are best solved with lots of small and creative solutions.

When you start with next to nothing, all you've got is a lot of thought, a lot of innovation, figuring new ways to do things without using a lot of money.

For every failure, there's an alternative course of action. You just have to find it. When you come to a roadblock, take a detour.

Tactics mean doing what you can with what you have.

The best work for creative folks on the team is when the problem is big and the solution escapes everyone.

To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.

You can do great things with low-tech stuff.

An idea is salvation by imagination.