Ray Dolby

“I was interested in trying to reduce the background noise in tape recordings.”

“I've always been a tinkerer.”

“I was never a hi-fi enthusiast.”

“It is a matter of trying to get the best of all worlds.”

“The idea is to make the technology transparent.”

“You have to be a bit of a maverick; you have to be a bit of a rebel.”

“To be an inventor, you have to be willing to live with a sense of uncertainty, to work in this darkness and grope towards an answer, to put up with anxiety about whether you're going to find an answer.”

“I think a lot of people are afraid of failure, but you can't be.”

“If you want to do something that's going to be commercially successful, you have to be offering a solution to a problem.”