An Essential Aspect Of Creativity

It Is A Curious Property Of Research Activity That After The Problem Has Been Solved The Solution Seems Obvious.

The First Thing You Do Is Teach The Person To Feel That The Vision Is Very Important And Nearly Impossible. That Draws Out The Drive In The Winner.

As I Review The Nature Of The Creative Drive In The Inventive Scientists That Have Been Around Me, As Well As In Myself, I Find The First Event Is An Urge To Make A Significant Intellectual Contribution That Can Be Tangible Embodied In A Product Or Process.

In My Opinion, Neither Organisms Nor Organizations Evolve Slowly And Surely Into Something Better, But Drift Until Some Small Change Occurs Which Has Immediate And Overwhelming Significance. The Special Role Of The Human Being Is Not To Wait For These Favorable Accidents But Deliberately To Introduce The Small Change That Will Have Great Significance.

[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.