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If This Is Preparation For Life, Where In The World, Where In The Relationship With Our Colleagues, Where In The Industrial Domain, Where Ever Again, Anywhere In Life, Is A Person Given This Curious Sequence Of Prepared Talks And Prepared Questions, Questions To Which The Answers Are Known?

An Invention That Is Quickly Accepted Will Turn Out To Be A Rather Trivial Alteration Of Something That Has Already Existed.

In My Opinion, Neither Organisms Nor Organizations Evolve Slowly And Surely Into Something Better, But Drift Until Some Small Change Occurs Which Has Immediate And Overwhelming Significance. The Special Role Of The Human Being Is Not To Wait For These Favorable Accidents But Deliberately To Introduce The Small Change That Will Have Great Significance.

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.

You Cannot Separate The Composition From The Life Of The Moment. It Is All One Thing, To Be Decided In A Split Second While You're Living Through It.