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.

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.

I really wanted to do research. That has never changed.

There were things I wanted to tell him. But I knew they would hurt him. So I buried them, and let them hurt me.

Cloning is great. If God made the original, then making copies should be fine.

Germany has acted effectively during the euro crisis. It needs to build on this to engage in other spheres too.

The immoderate cannot laugh moderately.

The most difficult instrument to play in the orchestra is second fiddle.

I'm very disturbed to find out that the leader of the Townies has a soul and I'm beginning to develop a bit of a crush on him.

Plays, gentlemen, are to their authors what children are to women: they cost more pain than they give pleasure.

Politics now is rather like going into Starbucks for a coffee.

I think we are all of the same opinion that "wherever you go, there you are," and if you are constantly searching for paradise outside of yourself, you will miss what is in your own backyard.

What man does not understand, he fears; and what he fears, he tends to destroy.