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.

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?'

The first thing you do is teach the person to feel that the vision is very important and nearly impossible. That draws out the drive in the winner.

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.

Do not do anything that anyone else can do readily.

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.

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