Any Problem Can Be Solved

[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.

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.

An Essential Aspect Of Creativity Is Not Being Afraid To Fail. Scientists Made A Great Invention By Calling Their Activities Hypotheses And Experiments. They Made It Permissible To Fail Repeatedly Until In The End They Got The Results They Wanted. In Politics Or Government, If You Made A Hypothesis And It Didn't Work Out, You Had Your Head Cut Off.

Intense Concentration For Hour After Hour Can Bring Out Resources In People That They Didn't Know They Had.

If You Sense A Deep Human Need, Then You Go Back To All The Basic Science. If There Is Some Missing, Then You Try To Do More Basic Science And Applied Science Until You Get It. So You Make The System To Fulfill That Need, Rather Than Starting The Other Way Around, Where You Have Something And Wonder What To Do With It.