"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 H. Land

January 1, 1970

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Statement to Polaroid Corporation employes (25 June 1958), as quoted in Insisting on the Impossible : The Life of Edwin Land (1998) by Victor K. McElheny, p. 189