Passed Deadlines Quotes by Jon Gertner

“in any company’s greatest achievements one might, with the clarity of hindsight, locate the beginnings of its own demise.”

— Jon Gertner

“radar won the war, whereas the atomic bomb merely ended it.”

— Jon Gertner

“I tried to get other people to do things,”

— Jon Gertner

“We have now successfully passed all our deadlines without meeting any of them.”

— Jon Gertner

“Shockley’s demonstration of the first junction transistors at a public unveiling at the West Street auditorium.”

— Jon Gertner

“Do you think this has helped your career?”

— Jon Gertner

“I’m lazy,” Pierce once told an interviewer.”

— Jon Gertner

“the second is that if you haven’t found a market to sell the product, you have not innovated.34”

— Jon Gertner

“Well, it was my career,” Pierce replied.”

— Jon Gertner

“The first is that if you haven’t manufactured the new thing in substantial quantities, you have not innovated;”

— Jon Gertner