I was born on 22 March 1931 in New York, the elder child of Abraham and Fanny Richter.

Starving the future to feed the present is a mistake - it leads to obsolescence and stagnation. Sometimes it is hard to make this understood.

Innovation and renewal are required to keep a laboratory on the frontiers of science.

In 1948 I entered the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, undecided between studies of chemistry and physics, but my first year convinced me that physics was more interesting to me.

While a lab Director can get done the things that he regards as important, he has the more important job of bringing out the best ideas of the broader scientific community.

Modern science is fast-moving, and no laboratory can exist for long with a program based on old facilities. Innovation and renewal are required to keep a laboratory on the frontiers of science.

Total failure isn't something I want to spend a lot of time envisioning. I'm pretty sure I'll recognize it if it comes.

Success becomes worthwhile if it fills your heart with happiness and not with stress.

Every change is a win-win situation if you allow it to take its natural course.

The Social Networking Netiquette Loop: Read, share, like, and repeat.

Prosperity makes some friends and many enemies.

A symbol always transcends the one who makes use of it and makes him say in reality more than he is aware of expressing.

Art is the exclusion of the unnecessary.

Peace is a certain resistance to the terrible satisfactions of war.

Retirement isn't so bad. Give me a tall drink, a plush sofa and a rerun of 'Matlock,' and you can have the rest. Matlock is my hero. He never loses.

I did think for many, many years that because of my ability I could beat the system. And I was wrong.

Pressed into service means pressed out of shape.