An invention that is quickly accepted will turn out to be a rather trivial alteration of something that has already existed.

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.

If you are able to state a problem - any problem - and if it is important enough, then the problem can be solved.

The future may require not so much having a new idea as stopping having an old idea.

We have to keep in practice like musicians. Besides, there are still potentialities to be realized in color film. To us, it's just like bringing up a child. You don't stop after you've had it.

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

The test of an invention is the power of an inventor to push it through in the face of staunch-not opposition, but indifference-in society.