In looking back at Kodak's long road to the digital age, Sasson doesn't believe his employer ultimately was late to the game.
"As much as other people may have introduced cameras earlier, I submit those cameras probably were not very easy to use — or very good by image-quality standards," he said. "The mission is the same as George Eastman's: Take this very important art and turn it into something 'as convenient as the pencil.'"
Ben Dobbin, "Digital camera turns 30 — sort of," MSNBC.com, 9 Sep 2005