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.

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

The scientific method is nothing more than a system of rules to keep us from lying to each other.

Motivation is not just part of business—it’s everything in business.

I am not that creative. And therefore you must be real.

Love is not only blind, but a fool, a stumbling mess falling backwards through showroom doors into atmospheres unwelcoming of his presence.

A quiet conscience makes one strong!

You can be stylish, and powerful too.

If you can’t be persuasive to get people to believe your crazy idea, you can just go ahead and build it.

I never wanted to be in movies. In a sense, I'm still a failure because I wanted to be a star on the stage.

I've gotten pretty good at leaving characters on the set. I go home and try to relax and regroup and be ready for the next day.

Adolf Hitler was a vile, heinous, vicious killer responsible for one of the greatest acts of evil committed on this planet.