Why Do I Want To Believe What

I Say That Our System Of Tests And Grades, As It Now Exists, Is One Source Of The Low Yield Of Great Men From Our Universities. The Marking System Is A Traumatic Experience From Which Most Students Emerge With A Deep Determination Never To Get Into A Situation Where They Can Be Marked Again. They Just Won't Ever Again Take A Chance.

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

An Essential Aspect Of Creativity Is Not Being Afraid To Fail.

If You Sense A Deep Human Need, Then You Go Back To All The Basic Science. If There Is Some Missing, Then You Try To Do More Basic Science And Applied Science Until You Get It. So You Make The System To Fulfill That Need, Rather Than Starting The Other Way Around, Where You Have Something And Wonder What To Do With It.

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?'