I really wanted to do research. That has never changed.
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.
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.
But today the quickest way to save your bottom line is to cut off research.
One hundred percent of our earnings are reinvested in the company, and a great deal of that goes to research.