I'm forming a charitable institution for education.

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.

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.

Hate smolders and eventually destroys, not the hated but the hater.

The intellectual heritage of the race belongs to the minority.

I thought the plays would speak for themselves. But they didn't.

There's nothing makes you admire people like seeing yourself in them.

A theory is just a mathematical model to describe the observations.

There are four basic emotions - mad, sad, glad and scared. And if you touch those emotions then you can grab your audience, your reader.

I curse Microsoft at least once a day. I only curse Apple every other day. As I see it, that's a 100 percent improvement.

When you come to New York you always get a buzz.

I have a purity ring.

(About events he will take part in) I vaulted today, and I'll throw the discus tomorrow around one o' clock. Then I'll race in the 100-meter final at 3:45 on Saturday.