A significant inventionmust ...

A significant inventionmust be startling, unexpected. It must come to a world that is not prepared for it.
A significant inventionmust be startling, unexpected. It must come to a world that is not prepared for it.
 Edwin Land

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This is ideological colonization. They colonize people with ideas that try to change mentalities or structures, but this is not new. This was done by the dictatorships of the last century.
The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.
Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed people can change the world. Indeed. It is the only thing that ever has.
To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly.
 Henri Bergson
Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.

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If you are able to state a problem - any problem - and if it is important enough, then the problem can be solved.
 Edwin Land
Look, if the picture you get instantly is as beautiful as the picture you get by waiting seven days, then it is absolute madness to say that there is virtue in waiting.
 Edwin Land
The very essence of democracy is the absolute faith that while people must cooperate, the first function of democracy, its peculiar gift, is to develop each individual into everything that he might be.
 Edwin Land
An invention that is quickly accepted will turn out to be a rather trivial alteration of something that has already existed.
 Edwin Land
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.
 Edwin Land