We live in a world changing so rapidly that what we mean frequently by…

Edwin Land
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We 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 Land's statement to Polaroid Corporation employees (June 25, 1958) as quoted in Victor K. McElheny Insisting on the Impossible: The Life of Edwin Land (p. 189), 1998.
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