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?'

It is a curious property of research activity that after the problem has been solved the solution seems obvious. This is true not only for those who have not previously been acquainted with the problem, but also for those who have worked over it for years.

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.

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 premature attempt to explain something that thrills you will destroy your perceptivity rather than increase it, because your tendency will be to explain away rather than seek out.

Any problem can be solved as long as it is stated properly.

Intense concentration for hour after hour can bring out resources in people that they didn't know they had.