Work only on problems that are manifestly important and seem to be nearly impossible to solve. That way you will have a natural market for your product and no competition.
Edwin LandWe 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.
Edwin LandAs 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.
Edwin LandIf you are able to state a problem - any problem - and if it is important enough, then the problem can be solved.
Edwin Land