Look, if the picture you get instantly is as beautiful as the picture you get by waiting seven days, then it is absolute madness to say that there is virtue in waiting.

We took on things which people might think would take a year or two. They weren't particularly hard. What was hard was believing they weren't hard.

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

Profundity and originality are attributes of single, if not singular, minds.

Any problem can be solved using the materials in the room.

I have long aspired to make our company a noble prototype of industry, penetrating in science, reliable in engineering, creative in aesthetics and wholesomely prosperous in economics.

Famous in our circles is the story of the visiting English banker who in 1948 upon seeing our model 95 camera commented, 'Very interesting, but why would one want a picture in a minute?'