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"Old age is a tyrant, who forbids, under pain of death, the pleasures of youth."
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"Ours is the age of substitutes: instead of language, we have jargon: instead of principles, slogans: and, instead of genuine ideas, bright ideas."
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"Young men soon give, and soon forget, affronts; old age is slow in both."
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"People who boast about age are actually forgetting something special. Age is not barrier to or elevator to success that's the job of vision."
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"If you will always remember your age and forget your dream, you will live great years and narrow impacts will come out of it."
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"I do not think either virginity or old age contemptible, and some of the shrewdest minds I have met inhabited the bodies of old maids."
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"The defects of the mind, like those of the face, grow worse with age."
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"At the age of 12, I developed an intense interest in mathematics. On exposure to algebra, I was fascinated by simultaneous equations and read ahead of the class to the end of the book."
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"In the age of the individual's liquidation, the question of individuality must be raised anew."
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"You can construct the character of a man and his age not only from what he does and says, but from what he fails to say and do."
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"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."
Boston
"We learned the value of research in World War II."
War
"I had studied violin from age 7 to 14."
Age
"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."
Business
"The excitement level for me working on projects is really not a bit different from when I was 26."
Passion
"But today the quickest way to save your bottom line is to cut off research."
Research
"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."
Music
"I really wanted to do research. That has never changed."
Research
"All military and most commercial aircraft use our designs that process power from jet engines."
Power
"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."
Business
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