Invention is arrived at by intelligent stumbling.

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

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.

A friendship between a man and a woman was what you called it when one had been pursuing the other for a long time and never gotten anywhere.

Calling people

Cruelty is a part of nature, at least of human nature, but it is the one thing that seems unnatural to us.

"One becomes a deeply religious nonbeliever...". It is clear from the original that it is definitely not "I".

If you want to make money in music, get into the band uniform business.

If you decide to live a pure life, don't expect the world to understand your decision.

Let us reform our schools, and we shall find little reform needed in our prisons.

The aristocratic mind ... is anti-analytical. It is concerned more with the status of being than with the demonstrable relationship of parts.

I have done every job in the Theatre apart from wardrobe. I was out of work more times than I was in it.

I work until beer o'clock.