Who Can Object To A Monopoly When

Photography Is Unlike Any Other Art Form. In The Other Arts There Is Always A Continuous Interplay Between The Artist And His Art. He Has The Painting Or Sculpture Before Him. What We Have Tried To Do Is To Provide A Medium For "artistic Expression" To Anyone With Only A Reasonable Amount Of Time. By Giving Him A Camera System With Which He Need Only Control His Selection Of Focus, Composition And Lighting, We Free Him To Select The Moment And To Criticize Immediately What He Has Done. We Enable Him To See What Else He Wants To Do On The Basis Of What He Has Just Learned.

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!

Over The Years, I Have Learned That Every Significant Invention Has Several Characteristics. By Definition It Must Be Startling, Unexpected, And Must Come Into A World That Is Not Prepared For It. If The World Were Prepared For It, It Would Not Be Much Of An Invention.

There's A Rule They Don't Teach You At The Harvard Business School. It Is, If Anything Is Worth Doing, It's Worth Doing To Excess.

It Is A Curious Property Of Research Activity That After The Problem Has Been Solved The Solution Seems Obvious. This Is True Not Only For Those Who Have Not Previously Been Acquainted With The Problem, But Also For Those Who Have Worked Over It For Years.