Conductor Quote by Todor Zhivkov

It was not so very long ago that people thought that semiconductors were part-time orchestra leaders and microchips were very small snack foods.

— Geraldine Ferraro

The cost of a semiconductor chip fabrication plant doubles every four years.

— Arthur Rock

I think it's doing very well. I'm pleased to see the concentration on semiconductors. I think this will help.

— Jack Kilby

“It has today occurred to me that an amplifier using semiconductors rather than vacuum is in principle possible. [Laboratory notebook, 29 Dec 1939.]”

— William Shockley

The technology [semiconductors] which has transformed practical existence is largely an application of what was discovered by these allegedly irresponsible [natural] philosophers.

— Cyril Norman Hinshelwood

Some people can do one thing magnificently, like Michelangelo, and others make things like semiconductors or build 747 airplanes -- that type of work…

— Steve Jobs

One of the most striking developments has been the rise, fall and rise again of the semiconductor industry of the United States, which is,…

— Peter Dicken

So I, I knew something in a business sense about semiconductors and I appreciated their possibilities.

— Arthur Rock

All the action, in semiconductors at the present time is in the new consumer applications, and that's where we have focused our activities since…

— David Milne

Digital imaging is as much about chemistry as it is about semiconductors.

— Antonio Perez

I would say that hardware is the bone of the head, the skull. The semiconductor is the brain within the head. The software is…

— Masayoshi Son

One shouldn't work on semiconductors, that is a filthy mess; who knows whether any semiconductors exist.

— Wolfgang Pauli

“Sir Isaac Newton famously said that he had achieved everything by standing on the shoulders of giants—the scientific men whose findings he built upon.…

— Sam Kean

I've spent my entire career in semiconductors.

— Lisa Su

And there's a metal train that's a mile long and at the very back end a lightning bolt struck her, How long til it…

— Bo Burnham