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.

We learned the value of research in World War II.

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.

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.

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.