It's not that we need new ideas, but we need to stop having old ideas.

About Edwin Land

Portrait of Edwin Land

Edwin Herbert Land, ForMemRS, FRPS, Hon.MRI (May 7, 1909 – March 1, 1991) was an American scientist and inventor, best known as the co-founder of the Polaroid Corporation. He invented inexpensive filters for polarizing light, a practical system of in-camera instant photography, and the retinex theory of color vision. His...

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Platitude: an idea (a) that is admitted to be true by everyone, and (b) that is not true.

—H. L. Mencken

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A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a quip and worried to death by a frown on the right man’s brow.

—Charles Brower

To die for an idea; it is unquestionably noble. But how much nobler it would be if men died for ideas that were true!

—H. L. Mencken

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The test of a first rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function.

—F. Scott Fitzgerald

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Around here, however, we don’t look backwards for very long. We keep moving forward, opening up new doors and doing new things, because we're curious… and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.

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