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

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

Invention is arrived at by intelligent stumbling.

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.

If you’ve been there, done that, gotten the t-shirt, isn’t it time to move on to a new destination? Don’t waste a lot of time stressing the “could have’s” – because if it should have, it would have!

A human being is part of a whole called by us the universe.

When I sing, I play in my mind; the minute I stop singing orally, I start to sing by playing Lucille.

When there's trouble I don't like running, but I'm afraid I got more in common with who I was, than who I am becoming

I mean science was blamed for all the horrors of World War I, just as it's blamed today for nuclear weapons and quite rightly.

The only thing that's been a worse flop than the organization of nonviolence has been the organization of violence.

A heart-felt prayer is not recitation with the lips. It is a yearning from within which expresses itself in every word, every act, nay every thought of people.

The first time I remember really being excited about a book was The Count of Monte Cristo.

When I go to a restaurant, yeah, I know that a line is probably going to form in front of the table, but didn't I always wish for that? Yeah, I did.