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..

My motto is very personal and may not fit anyone else or any other company. It is: Don't do anything that someone else can do. Don't undertake a proj….

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

A mistake is an event, the full benefit of which has not yet been turned to your advantage..

Someone is going to make your product obsolete. Make sure it's you..

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

[The Polaroid camera is] a system that will be a partner in perception, enabling us to see the objects in the world around us more vividly than we ca….

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

The process must be concealed from - non-existent for - the photographer, who by definition need think of the art in the taking and not in the making….

A mistake is a future benefit, the full value of which is yet to be realized..

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

You must expect failure after failure after failure before you succeed..

We took on things which people might think would take a year or two. They weren't particularly hard. What was hard was believing they weren't hard..

Any problem can be solved as long as it is stated properly..

The second great product of industry should be the rewarding life for every person.

Industry is best at the intersection of science and art..

A significant inventionmust be startling, unexpected. It must come to a world that is not prepared for it..

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

Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity..

The future may require not so much having a new idea as stopping having an old idea..

The present is the past biting into the future..