How are we doing in the electronics field as opposed to, you know, we hear how advanced the Japanese are? Do you think we're still pretty competitive? Oh, yes. — Jack Kilby Copy Share Image
Somewhere in that 20-year period, I would assume that there will be some basically new approach that will begin to cut into it, but… — Jack Kilby Copy Share Image
Five years ago, people were crying and feeling the Japanese were about to take over the Earth. I don't hear that kind of talk… — Jack Kilby Copy Share Image
Well, the thought that everybody might have a personal computer at their desk or their home was certainly not on the mainstream of anybody's… — Jack Kilby Copy Share Image
Today, people tend to credit me with having the original idea and made the first circuits. — Jack Kilby Copy Share Image
I feel my story has been exercised very thoroughly and very frequently. — Jack Kilby Copy Share Image
It was really a very small company when I started and it changed very rapidly during those first periods. — Jack Kilby Copy Share Image
Well, the big products in electronics in the '50s were radio and television. The first big computers were just beginning to come in and… — Jack Kilby Copy Share Image
How are we doing in the electronics field as opposed to, you know, we hear how advanced the Japanese are? Do you think we're… — Jack Kilby Copy Share Image
This could be done in part, because the equipment was very inexpensive. Not much money was involved in tooling so that basic changes of… — Jack Kilby Copy Share Image
Well, it's very dangerous to project, but it's clear that the existing technology has some more years to go. — Jack Kilby Copy Share Image
I think I thought it would be important for electronics as we knew it then, but that was a much simpler business and electronics… — Jack Kilby Copy Share Image
