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 Copy Share Image
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… — Gordon Gould Copy Share Image
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,… — Gordon Gould Copy Share Image
That attitude does not exist so much today, but in those days there was a very sharp distinction between basic physics and applied physics.… — Gordon Gould Copy Share Image
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… — Gordon Gould Copy Share Image
Just think, if I had understood my lawyer and if he and I had communicated properly in January 1958, this whole history would have… — Gordon Gould Copy Share Image
But certainly the laser proved to be what I realized it was going to be. At that moment in my life I was too… — Gordon Gould Copy Share Image
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… — Gordon Gould Copy Share Image
