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.

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

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.

Profundity and originality are attributes of single, if not singular, minds.

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?'

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.

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.