Jack Kilby Quotes

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• I'm doing a little consulting. I'm somewhat retired, still a director of a company or two.
• I'm sure there will continue to be exciting new products and major changes, but it looks as if the existing technology has a great deal…
• I think the varied backgrounds in the beginning were a plus. It took a while for people to understand what they were trying to do…
• The first calculators tended to sell for $400 or $500. Today, you can get a pretty good one for 4 or $5.
• This could be done in part, because the equipment was very inexpensive. Not much money was involved in tooling so that basic changes of that…
• I feel my story has been exercised very thoroughly and very frequently.
• My own interest developed because I thought it was a fascinating subject and something I wanted to pursue.
• There was a space program before there was integrated circuits.
• Today, people tend to credit me with having the original idea and made the first circuits.
• The number of parts that were required were just prohibitive.
• It was really a very small company when I started and it changed very rapidly during those first periods.
• I think I thought it would be important for electronics as we knew it then, but that was a much simpler business and electronics was…
• 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 anymore.
• 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…
• I think it's doing very well. I'm pleased to see the concentration on semiconductors. I think this will help.
• It's also somewhat in the center of a number of things that will be useful to the company.
• It's true that the original idea was mine, but what you see today is the work of probably tens of thousands of the world's best…
• 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 it's…
• The groups that have awarded them are all a little different. It's a little hard to single out any one for that, but I think…
• They were the largest semiconductor maker in the world up until about 1980. I'm not sure that that can be re-gained again, but their progress…

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