I Don't Mind Conducting The Orchestra If

The Very Essence Of Democracy Is The Absolute Faith That While People Must Cooperate, The First Function Of Democracy, Its Peculiar Gift, Is To Develop Each Individual Into Everything That He Might Be.

[a Polaroid Camera] Places Before You A Thing That Is More Of The Thing Than The Thing Was.

There's A Tremendous Popular Fallacy Which Holds That Significant Research Can Be Carried Out By Trying Things. Actually It Is Easy To Show That In General No Significant Problem Can Be Solved Empirically, Except For Accidents So Rare As To Be Statistically Unimportant. One Of My Jests Is To Say That We Work Empirically -- We Use Bull's Eye Empiricism. We Try Everything, But We Try The Right Thing First!

My Motto Is Very Personal And May Not Fit Anyone Else Or Any Other Company. It Is: Don't Do Anything That Someone Else Can Do. Don't Undertake A Project Unless It Is Manifestly Important And Nearly Impossible.

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.