Don't Do Anything That Someone Else Can

It Is A Curious Property Of Research Activity That After The Problem Has Been Solved The Solution Seems Obvious. This Is True Not Only For Those Who Have Not Previously Been Acquainted With The Problem, But Also For Those Who Have Worked Over It For Years.

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.

A Mistake Is A Future Benefit, The Full Value Of Which Is Yet To Be Realized.

The World Is Like A Fertile Field That's Waiting To Be Harvested. The Seeds Have Been Planted, And What I Do Is Go Out And Help Plant More Seeds And Harvest Them.

[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 Can See Them Without It, A System To Be An Aid To Memory And A Tool For Exploration.