A mistake is an event, the full benefit of which has not yet been turned to your advantage.

We live in a world changing so rapidly that what we mean frequently by common sense is doing the thing that would have been right last year.

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

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

There is no such thing as group originality, group creativity or group perspicacity.

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?'