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Over The Years, I Have Learned That Every Significant Invention Has Several Characteristics. By Definition It Must Be Startling, Unexpected, And Must Come Into A World That Is Not Prepared For It. If The World Were Prepared For It, It Would Not Be Much Of An Invention.

A Mistake Is A Future Benefit, The Full Value Of Which Is Yet To Be Realized.

Fifty Years After We Undertook To Make The First Synthetic Polarizers We Find Them The Essential Layer In Digital Liquid-crystal. And Thirty Four Years After We Undertook To Make The First Instant Camera And Film, Our Kind Of Photography Has Become Ubiquitous.

Aladdin In His Most Intoxicated Moments Would Never Have Dreamed Of Asking His [djinn] For [a Polaroid] ... It's Utterly New In Concept And Appearance, Utilizing An Utterly Revolutionary Flash System, An Utterly Revolutionary Viewing System, Utterly Revolutionary Electronics, And Utterly Revolutionary Film Structure.

An Essential Aspect Of Creativity Is Not Being Afraid To Fail. Scientists Made A Great Invention By Calling Their Activities Hypotheses And Experiments. They Made It Permissible To Fail Repeatedly Until In The End They Got The Results They Wanted. In Politics Or Government, If You Made A Hypothesis And It Didn't Work Out, You Had Your Head Cut Off.