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

Invention is arrived at by intelligent stumbling.

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, then took the measurements back to MIT and analyzed them.

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

I had studied violin from age 7 to 14.

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

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