One hundred percent of our earnings are reinvested in the company, and a great deal of that goes to research.

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.

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.

I love the Bible. I read it every day. I spend 10 hours a week studying it. It has affected my life in profound ways. I am inspired when I read it.

Brook Lopez had a better game than Deron Williams

It's a pleasure to play my sister because everything I've accused her of my whole life, I can now re-enact before her eyes.

The longing for a very garish kind of success seems as widespread among writers as among investment bankers.

Following Jesus in faith is to walk with him in the communion of the Church. You cannot follow Jesus alone.

I think the pursuit of trying to understand things is really a critical issue. I see the issue of life and death in everything I do. I'm trying to find answers. It can be quite frustrating.

California is like an artificial limb the rest of the country doesn't really need. You can quote me on that.

What you earn depends on what you learn.

My mom told me when I get compliments to cover my ears.