Research in this country is going down.

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.

They deem him their worst enemy who tells them the truth. -Plato, philosopher (427-347 BCE)

The beauty of the soul is wrapped in modest fashion.

For me, it's painful to make a movie. It's not my normal rhythm.

What I am fighting is the idea that charity is a moral duty and a primary virtue.

If you stand back and analyze the best way to do something, you'll be standing there forever. Follow your gut and jump right in!

The real threat to whales is whaling, which has endangered many whale species.

A frontier is never a place; it is a time and a way of life.

Never in the annals of software engineering was so much owed by so many to so few lines of code

I always assumed I would leave drama school and do 'Lady Macbeth' and all sorts of serious things. It just didn't happen.

The white men of the South had better make up their minds that the blacks will remain in the South just as long as corn will tassel and cotton will bloom into whiteness.