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Going to Lehigh and studying engineering —and that means industrial engineering—
was a blessing.
I was lucky.
It was not intended; it happened.
Fortunately, a lot of things in life will happen and it's very nice if the right things happen.
I had to go to engineering school because my father told me to.
We did what our parents told us in those days.
I wish I could say the same thing for my children.
[ Laughter ]
So, going to Lehigh and being an industrial engineer was not on my mind but it happened.
It was a lucky thing to happen for me
because I found the atmosphere of the students and the quality of the education to be superb.
So, I had the right in going in the film laboratory to do whatever operation there was,
which was operate printing machines and work on the developing machine.
My brother was a film maker so I worked with artists.
I got to like working with artists because I found that the good artists were probably motivated by a human feeling,
and that was the most important thing.
Their goal wasn't to make money or to do this or do that,
it was to express or create an idea.
As an engineer I found it easier to communicate with the artist than with the business man
because in many ways the artist was more true to the environment and what he was doing.
The business man was only interested in the buck and how do you do it.
You don't have to do it right; it's how much you make.
A lot of it I began to appreciate—not so much in the beginning— was because of the education that I had received here
and the fact that I became a stupid industrial engineer
which was not, in the sense in my lifetime, was not really an engineer.
But, it enabled me to know how to steal products and ideas from everybody,
put it together commercially, and I got involved with big success like I was a genius.