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


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

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



[A Polaroid camera] places before you a thing that is more of the thing than the thing was.

[A Polaroid camera] places before you a thing that is more of the thing than the thing was.



Don't undertake a project unless it is manifestly important and nearly impossible.

Don't undertake a project unless it is manifestly important and nearly impossible.



Anything worth doing is worth doing to excess.

Anything worth doing is worth doing to excess.



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.

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.



Someone is going to make your product obsolete. Make sure it's you.

Someone is going to make your product obsolete. Make sure it's you.



A mistake is an event, the full benefit of which has not yet been turned to your advantage.

A mistake is an event, the full benefit of which has not yet been turned to your advantage.



Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity.

Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity.



Any problem can be solved as long as it is stated properly.

Any problem can be solved as long as it is stated properly.



You must expect failure after failure after failure before you succeed.

You must expect failure after failure after failure before you succeed.





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The religion I have to love and fear God, believe in Jesus Christ, do all the good to my neighbor, and myself that I can, do as little harm as I can help, and trust on God's mercy for the rest.

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The whole problem of industrial agriculture is putting all of your eggs in one basket. We need to diversify our food chains as well as our fields so that when some of them fail, we can still eat.

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The more you feel you are fallen; the more you fall in love with God.

The more you feel you are fallen; the more you fall in love with God.



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I think I'm the only player who looks at each and every center and says to myself, 'That's barbecued chicken down there.'



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