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….

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 ….

Research in this country is going down..

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….

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….

Invention is arrived at by intelligent stumbling..

I never went into business to make money..

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

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 ….

No one ever won a chess game by betting on each move. Sometimes you have to move backward to get a step forward..

There is an enormous inertia that prevents people from change. You must always remember that it is impossible to make something better if you don't m….

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 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….

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

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

I had studied violin from age 7 to 14..

I'm forming a charitable institution for education..

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

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