What I learned from rereading Land's Polaroid: A Company and the Man Who Invented It by Peter C. Wensberg.
Why do you want to work in a nutty place like this?
I don't.
Yes, you do.
Otherwise you wouldn't be here.
Well, why is Polaroid a nutty place to start with?
It's run by a man who has more brains than anyone has a right to.
He doesn't believe anything until he's discovered it and proved it for himself.
Because of that, he never looks at things the way you or I do.
He has no room for small talk.
He has no preconceived notions.
He starts from the beginning with everything.
That's why we have a camera that takes pictures and develops them right away.
Isn't that what a camera is supposed to do?
Uh, I don't know.
Of course it is.
It's obvious.
But land was the first person to think about it that way.
I've been a photographer all my life, and I'm a smart guy, but I didn't think of it.
It never occurred to me, let alone how to do it.
That is a whole nother story.