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  • I have to stay in soaps to pay my bills to Kodak. -- Michael Zaslow
  • Me not working hard? Yeah, right - picture that with a Kodak. -- Rob Gronkowski
  • In 1976, Kodak's first digital camera shot at 0.1 megapixels, weighed 3.75 pounds, and cost over $10,000. -- Peter Diamandis
  • In 2009, I went to Cannes with a short film in the Kodak emerging program at the American Pavilion. -- Ryan Coogler
  • Well, it was kind of an accident, because plastic is not what I meant to invent. I had just sold photograph paper to Eastman Kodak for 1 million dollars. -- Leo Baekeland
  • Did you know that Kodak actually invented the digital camera that ultimately put it out of business? Kodak had the patents and a head start, but ignored all that. -- Peter Diamandis
  • The man at Kodak told me the shots were very good and if I kept it up, they would give me an exhibition. Later, Kodak gave me my first exhibition. -- Gordon Parks
  • My stepfather gave me a Kodak camera when I was 17 years old. I started working at a local photo store in Le Havre, France, taking passport pictures and photographing weddings. -- Patrick Demarchelier
  • I began working with a family camera. It was called a Kodak Autographic, which was one of those things where you flopped it open and pulled out the bellows. And I've been at it ever since; I've never stopped. -- Leonard Nimoy
  • In my dressing room, you'll definitely find some Starbursts and Skittles. I have a lot of candles that remind me of home, and a humidifier for my voice. I also have some digital Kodak albums where I have pictures of my friends and family. -- Trey Songz
  • Back in the 1970s, Kodak tried to give $25m to a black civil rights organisation in Rochester, New York. The company's shareholders rose up in arms: making this politically charged offering wasn't the reason they had entrusted Kodak with their money. The donation was withdrawn. -- Noreena Hertz
  • There are a lot of companies - not just Sony and Kodak - that have spent a lot of money trying to make the quality of the digital images comparable with film. But when you're sending these things over the Internet, they don't have to be high quality. -- Clayton M. Christensen
  • Kodak sells film, but they don't advertise film; they advertise memories. -- Theodore Levitt
  • Photojournalists know the horrors of war can only be exposed at close range. Kodak Film. -- James Nachtwey
  • Almost any fool can paint an academy picture, and any imbecile can shoot off a Kodak. -- Ezra Pound
  • The [Kodak is] the only witness I have encountered in my long experience that I couldn't bribe. -- Mark Twain
  • Besides," Shane said "I want to see Monica's face when she catches sight of the two of you. Kodak moment. -- Rachel Caine
  • If only I had thought of a Kodak! I could have flashed that glimpse of the Under-world in a second, and examined it at leisure. -- H. G. Wells
  • I loved the way the burned-out flashcubes of the Kodak Instamatic marked a moment that had passed, one that would now be gone forever except for a picture. -- Alice Sebold
  • My protest against digital has been me saying, "What's going to happen to film?" The result is that Kodak is out of business. That's a national tragedy. We've got to keep making film. -- Oliver Stone
  • I began working with a family camera. It was called a Kodak Autographic, which was one of those things where you flopped it open and pulled out the bellows. And I've been at it ever since - I've never stopped -- Leonard Nimoy
  • I was a consultant for Kodak back in the late 80's. There were engineers there who told me that in the future, most photographs would be taken on telephones. They weren't able to do anything with that. They were engineers, not management. -- Sam Abell
  • When someone takes their existing business and tries to transform it into something else - they fail. In technology that is often the case. Look at Kodak: it was the dominant imaging company in the world. They did fabulously during the great depression, but then wiped out the shareholders because of technological change. -- Charlie Munger
  • I think way back, the '20s or the '30s, when Kodak came out with the Brownie and they put a list of instructions on the box, like how to use this thing, I think someone arbitrarily said, 'Make sure the person in the photograph is smiling.' And we went from that one sort of set of industrial instructions to this whole culture of perkiness. -- Douglas Coupland
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