Gordon Gould Quotes

There was a second problem that was still not a technical problem... the project became classified. I couldn't work on it after having gone to all that trouble. I was considered a security risk, so I could not get a clearance. - Gordon Gould

The real technical problems came because people working on the project didn't really follow my proposal at all, but set out to do other things instead of making a laser. - Gordon Gould

Just think, if I had understood my lawyer and if he and I had communicated properly in January 1958, this whole history would have been entirely different . - Gordon Gould

I would have had my patent long, long ago, and it would have run out long, long ago. I would have made, maybe, $100.000, much less that the patent has brought me now. - Gordon Gould

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