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.
But today the quickest way to save your bottom line is to cut off research.
We learned the value of research in World War II.
I'm forming a charitable institution for education.
If you think something is impossible, don't disturb the person who is doing it!
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.