Research in this country is going down.

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.

We learned the value of research in World War II.

There is an enormous inertia that prevents people from change. You must always remember that it is impossible to make something better if you don't make it different - the converse is not true, of course. You cannot make something better unless it is different. And different scares the life out of so many people.

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

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.