Cost Quote by Neil deGrasse Tyson

The urge to miniaturize electronics did not exist before the space program. I mean our grandparents had radios that was furniture in the living…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

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

There was a space program before there was integrated circuits.

— Jack Kilby

“Space junk had made low Earth orbit space almost unusable by the mid-thirties, and it had taken a decade of concerted and costly international…

— John Sandford

Microprocessors were instantly attractive to us because you could build something for a fraction of the cost of conventional electronics. That's essentially what we…

— Paul Allen

Computers and cellphones - which require semiconductors and microchips to work - have become so essential to life all over the world that it's…

— Tatiana Schlossberg

Electronics are getting more and more accessible now - you don't have to be an engineer to start building things.

— Simone Giertz

We should forget about small efficiencies, say about 97% of the time: premature optimization is the root of all evil.

— Anonymous

We can't have tech just for the sake of it. To maximise the potential of technology solutions you have to understand how to use…

— James Haskell

In the space business, space had gotten very much to be the aerospace industry. This is something that governments only do and it's where…

— Peter Diamandis

We have to engineer devices that are going to work in space stations. Those same things are going to work in the most remote…

— Kathleen Rubins

Technology is supposed to make our lives easier, allowing us to do things more quickly and efficiently. But too often it seems to make…

— James Surowiecki