Invention is arrived at by intelligent stumbling.

I would have been fired a hundred times at a company run by M.B.A.’s. But I never went into business to make money. I went into business so that I could do interesting things that hadn’t been done before.

The excitement level for me working on projects is really not a bit different from when I was 26.

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

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.

I never went into business to make money.