All military and most commercial aircraft use our designs that process power from jet engines.

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.

I hope that the institution will succeed in maximizing students' potential in the same way. I will give all of my stock to this institution. It will own the Bose Corporation and be funded by the Bose Corporation.

Research in this country is going down.

One hundred percent of our earnings are reinvested in the company, and a great deal of that goes to research.

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

The prejudice was so bad in the United States at that time that a dark person with a white person would not be served in a restaurant. My father, mother, and I would try it occasionally. We would sit there, and the food would never come.