"If you dream of something worth doing and then simply go to work on it and don’t think
anything of personalities, or emotional conflicts, or of money, or of family distractions;
if you just think of, detail by detail, what you have to do next, it is a wonderful dream
even if the end is a long way off, for there are about five thousand steps to be taken
before we realize it; and start making the first ten, and stay making twenty after, it is
amazing how quickly you get through those five thousand steps.”
- Edwin Land to Polaroid employees (1942)