I really wanted to do research. That has never changed.
One hundred percent of our earnings are reinvested in the company, and a great deal of that goes to research.
I never went into business to make money.
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.
Invention is arrived at by intelligent stumbling.
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 body. It was an experiment to see how high we could bring their level of understanding, and it exceeded all of my expectations.