I loved music, and in my ninth year at MIT, I decided to buy a hi-fi set. I figured that all I needed to do was look at the specifications. So I bought what looked like the best one, turned it on, and turned it off in five minutes, the sound was so poor.

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.

No one ever won a chess game by betting on each move. Sometimes you have to move backward to get a step forward.

We learned the value of research in World War II.

Invention is arrived at by intelligent stumbling.

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

But today the quickest way to save your bottom line is to cut off research.