The process must be concealed from - non-existent for - the photographer, who by definition need think of the art in the taking and not in the making photographs... In short, all that should be necessary to get a good picture is to take a good picture.

Work only on problems that are manifestly important and seem to be nearly impossible to solve. That way you will have a natural market for your product and no competition.

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.

A mistake is a future benefit, the full value of which is yet to be realized.

This is the most exciting part of being human. It is using our brains in the highest way. Otherwise we are just healthy animals

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?'