"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."

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Edwin Land

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“Modern science knows much about such conflicts. We call the mental state that engenders it "ambivalence": a collision between thought and feeling.”
“I am inspired by the films of Pedro AlmodÃ³var, as they are funny, sad, and extremely weird.”
“He who lives to see two or three generations is like a man who sits some time in the conjurer's booth at a fair, and witnesses the performance twice or thrice in succession. The tricks were meant to be seen only once; and when they are no longer a novelty and cease to deceive, their effect is gone.”
“You could raise the price of, say, a bottle of ketchup to $1.03 instead of $1, and no one would know. Raising prices just 3% per product would add 50% to your pretax income. Why not do it? It's like heroin: You do a little and you want a little bit more. Raising prices is the easy way.”
“The true teacher defends his pupils against his own personal influence. He inspires self-trust. He guides their eyes from himself to the spirit that quickens him. He will have no disciples.”
“I thought of such Christian inventions as the ghetto and the Jewish badge of shame. The Nazis didn't have to go very far to pick up their know-how.”
“Freedom is not having a big budget.”
“As long as men are men, a poor society cannot be too poor to find a right order of life, nor a rich society too rich to have need to seek it.”

Source : 1926 The Acquisitive Society.

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