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Amar Bose Biography

Amar Gopal Bose (November 2, 1929 – July 12, 2013) was an American academic and entrepreneur of Indian descent. An electrical engineer and sound engineer, he was a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) for over 45 years. He was also the founder and chairman of Bose Corporation. In 2011, he donated a majority of the company to MIT in the form of non-voting shares to sustain and advance MIT's education and research mission.

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

Deal, Earning, Hundred, Percent, Research

There is an enormous inertia that prevents people from change. You must always remember that it is impossible to make something better if you don't make it different - the converse is not true, of course. You cannot make something better unless it is different. And different scares the life out of so many people.

Course, Different, Inertia, People, Scare, Scares

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

Backward, Betting, Failure, Game, Inspirational, Perseverance

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

Aircraft, Design, Engines, Jet, Jet Engines, Military

At 13, I realized that I could fix anything electronic. It was amazing, I could just do it. I started a business repairing radios. It grew to be one of the largest in Philadelphia.

Electronic, Fix, Grew, Philadelphia, Radio, Realized

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.

Corporation, Corporations, Giving, Maximizing, Stock

I had studied violin from age 7 to 14.

Age, Studied, Violin

The food we ate was Indian, and both my mother and father were very deep into the ancient philosophy of India, so it could well have been an Indian household.

Ancient, Father, Household, Mother, Philosophy

We did experiments with the Boston Symphony for many years where we measured the angles of incidence of sound arriving at the ears of the audience, then took the measurements back to MIT and analyzed them.

Back, Boston, Experiments, Symphony, Years

Research in this country is going down.

Country, Down, Research

I'm forming a charitable institution for education.

Charitable, Education, Forming, Institution, Institutions

I really wanted to do research. That has never changed.

Changed, Never Change, Research

I never went into business to make money.

Business, Make, Making Money, Money

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.

Come, Dark, Father, Mother, Prejudice

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.

Years, Sound, Looks, Decided, Specifications, Figured