I wouldn't give a dime for all the possibilities of [motion pictures with sound]. The public will never accept it.

Suicide note. "To my friends. My work is done why wait?"

The world is moving, and a company that contents itself with present accomplishments soon falls behind.

Photography is thus brought within reach of every human being who desires to preserve a record of what he sees… and enables the fortunate possessor to go back by the light of his own fireside to scenes which would otherwise fade from memory and be lost.

I wouldn't give a dime for all the possibilities of [motion pictures with sound]. The public will never accept it.

Light makes photography. Embrace light. Admire it. Love it. But above all, know light. Know it for all you are worth, and you will know the key to photography.

Philologically, the word Kodak is as meaningless as a child's first goo. Terse, abrupt to the point of rudeness, literally bitten off by firm and unyielding consonants at both ends, it snaps like a camera shutter in your face. What more would one ask. (Explaining why he named his company Kodak.)