I had studied violin from age 7 to 14..

I would have been fired a hundred times at a company run by M.B.A.’s. But I never went into business to make money. I went into business so that I co….

Research in this country is going down..

But today the quickest way to save your bottom line is to cut off research..

We did experiments with the Boston Symphony for many years where we measured the angles of incidence of sound arriving at the ears of the audience, t….

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

All military and most commercial aircraft use our designs that process power from jet engines..

At MIT, I had the good fortune for seven years to teach network theory, which is basic to many disciplines, to one-third of the undergraduate student….

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 h….

We learned the value of research in World War II..

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 ….

I'm forming a charitable institution for education..

At 13, I realized that I could fix anything electronic. It was amazing, I could just do it. I started a business repairing radios. It grew to be one ….

The prejudice was so bad in the United States at that time that a dark person with a white person would not be served in a restaurant. My father, mot….

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

The excitement level for me working on projects is really not a bit different from when I was 26..

I never went into business to make money..

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

I loved music, and in my ninth year at MIT, I decided to buy a hi-fi set. I figured that all I needed to do was look at the specifications. So I boug….

Invention is arrived at by intelligent stumbling..

I hope that the institution will succeed in maximizing students' potential in the same way. I will give all of my stock to this institution. It will ….