I really wanted to do research. That has never changed.

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.

In politics, you know, as well as I do, there are no men, but ideas - no feelings, but interests.

If I replace the word God with the word nature, I am far more at ease with the whole religious enterprise.

It was a melancholy secret that reality can arouse desires but never satisfy them.

I'm a very brave person. I can go to North Vietnam, I can challenge my government, but I can't challenge the man I'm with if means I'm going to end up alone.

Remember to let her into your heart.

I had this roommate in college who would get up almost 2 hours before class to do hair and makeup. That's not for me.

It's the good loser who finally loses out.

Men aging makes them look more authoritative, accomplished, distinguished. Sadly, it's not that way for women, and they will tell you.

I have enemies I've never met - that's fame.

It's always fun to improvise. What's weird is that when you're recording, you're by yourself, for the most part.