Politeness is the poison of collaboration.

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.

The world is like a fertile field that's waiting to be harvested. The seeds have been planted, and what I do is go out and help plant more seeds and harvest them.

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?'

An essential aspect of creativity is not being afraid to fail.

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

As I review the nature of the creative drive in the inventive scientists that have been around me, as well as in myself, I find the first event is an urge to make a significant intellectual contribution that can be tangible embodied in a product or process.