I had studied violin from age 7 to 14.

If you think something is impossible, don't disturb the person who is doing it!

Invention is arrived at by intelligent stumbling.

No one ever won a chess game by betting on each move. Sometimes you have to move backward to get a step forward.

One hundred percent of our earnings are reinvested in the company, and a great deal of that goes to research.

The food we ate was Indian, and both my mother and father were very deep into the ancient philosophy of India, so it could well have been an Indian household.

We learned the value of research in World War II.

I'm forming a charitable institution for education.

All military and most commercial aircraft use our designs that process power from jet engines.

The excitement level for me working on projects is really not a bit different from when I was 26.

There was a time when I was wondering about this business of going public, so I visited about a half-dozen companies in the Boston area, all of them formed by MIT faculty and all had gone public.

Remember that often we will not know the small details of our life mission

to love is to destroy and that to be loved is the one to be destroyed

I have a hard time accepting diversity as a synonym for justice. Diversity is a corporate strategy.

Coaching is helping people discover what they could not discover on their own, so they can become what they want to become.

That was the worst of being poor, you couldn't give the right things in sickness.

One of the things Satan fears the most is that you would get the revelation of what you can do through prayer.

When you're young you try to be methodical and philosophical, but reality keeps breaking in.

Today I got so annoyed with myself that I lost my patience and walked away from a game that, with hindsight, I should have continued [on quitting a game early on against Hendry]

The overwhelming majority of people are comfortable with consensus, but successful investors tend to have a contrarian bent.

Esteem has more engaging charms than friendship, or even love. It captivates hearts better, and never makes ings.