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.

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

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 could do interesting things that hadn’t been done before.

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.

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 of the largest in Philadelphia.

I'm forming a charitable institution for education.