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“...from this day forward until the day you are buried, do two things each day. First, master a difficult old insight, and second, add some new piece of knowledge to the world each day.”

Edwin Land

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There is no such thing as group originality, group creativity or group perspicacity.

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

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