I don't seek power and do not run around.

There is a saying that every nice piece of work needs the right person in the right place at the right time.

Now that I near 80, I realize with wistful pleasure that on many occasions I was 10, 20, 40, even 50 years ahead of my time.

I was in an industrial laboratory because academia found me unsuitable.

An extraordinary amount of arrogance is present in any claim of having been the first in inventing something.

Nobody will deny that there is at least some roughness everywhere.