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I have discovered that my interest in my dear pupil, Mabel, has ripened into a far deeper feeling than that of mere friendship. In fact, I know that I have learned to love her very sincerely. Alexander Graham Bell

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It is a neck-and-neck race between Mr. Gray and myself who shall complete our apparatus first. He has the advantage over me in being a practical electrician - but I have reason to believe that I am better acquainted with the phenomena of sound than he is - so that I have an advantage there. Alexander Graham Bell

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Such a chimerical idea as telegraphing vocal sounds would indeed, to most minds, seem scarcely feasible enough to spend time in working over. I believe, however, that it is feasible and that I have got the cue to the solution of the problem. Alexander Graham Bell

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. Amar Bose

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

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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. Amar Bose

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

Research Changed Never Wanted Really

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. Amar Bose

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

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I'm forming a charitable institution for education. Amar Bose

Education Charitable Institution Forming

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. Amar Bose

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Research in this country is going down. Amar Bose

Country Research Down Going

We learned the value of research in World War II. Amar Bose

War History World Value Research Learned World War World War II

But typically for a project like the Mac, the size we had was pretty good. And it has different stages. The team grows as you have to write manuals and do testing... though the Mac had no formal testing. Andy Hertzfeld

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I started working at Apple about 18 months after I bought my Apple II. Andy Hertzfeld

Months About Bought After Working Apple Apple II Started

The Apple II was not designed like an ordinary product. It used crazy tricks everywhere. Andy Hertzfeld

Crazy Everywhere Tricks Like Ordinary Product Used Apple Apple II Designed

I knew the Apple II was great when I bought it, but as I dug into the details it just completely blew me away the creative artistic approach that the designers had taken. Andy Hertzfeld

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I left General Magic in 1996 to become an Internet hobbyist - got a T-1 line to my house. At one point I had all four food banks of the Bay Area hosted from this house here. Andy Hertzfeld

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In fact when I first got my Apple II the first thing I did was turn it on and off, on and off, just because I had the power to do so, which I'd never had on a computer before. Andy Hertzfeld

We were developing an innovative Personal Information Manager called Chandler but a couple years ago I took off from that to do a project writing down my memoirs essentially, reminiscing about the development of the Macintosh. Andy Hertzfeld

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