Jack Kilby Quotes

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 mostly radio and television and the first computers.
Jack Kilby

Computers, Business, Important

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.
Jack Kilby

Feeling, Talk, Earth

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

Pretty, Hear, Yes

I feel my story has been exercised very thoroughly and very frequently.
Jack Kilby

Story, Exercised, Frequently

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

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 and get started, but it did provide for a lot of new ideas.
Jack Kilby

Trying, Understand, While

I'm doing a little consulting. I'm somewhat retired, still a director of a company or two.
Jack Kilby

Two, Company, Director

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 of room to grow and prosper.
Jack Kilby

Great, Technology, Sure

It was really a very small company when I started and it changed very rapidly during those first periods.
Jack Kilby

Small, Started, Company

It's also somewhat in the center of a number of things that will be useful to the company.
Jack Kilby

Company, Number, Useful

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 engineers, all concentrating on improving the product, reducing the cost, things of that sort.
Jack Kilby

Work, Best, Today

My own interest developed because I thought it was a fascinating subject and something I wanted to pursue.
Jack Kilby

Thought, Wanted, Interest

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 got a long time.
Jack Kilby

Time, Long, Begin

The first calculators tended to sell for $400 or $500. Today, you can get a pretty good one for 4 or $5.
Jack Kilby

Good, Today, Pretty

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 the dedication of this building would have to go toward the top of the list.
Jack Kilby

Single, Hard, Different

The number of parts that were required were just prohibitive.
Jack Kilby

Number, Parts, Required

There was a space program before there was integrated circuits.
Jack Kilby

Before, Space, Program

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 in the last few years has been very impressive.
Jack Kilby

Again, Last, Few

They're very strong in memory. Didn't do very much in microprocessors or digital signal processing.
Jack Kilby

Strong, Memory, Digital

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 type could be accomplished.
Jack Kilby

Money, Done, Changes

Today, people tend to credit me with having the original idea and made the first circuits.
Jack Kilby

Today, Made, Idea

Well, it's very dangerous to project, but it's clear that the existing technology has some more years to go.
Jack Kilby

Technology, Dangerous, Clear

Well, the big products in electronics in the '50s were radio and television. The first big computers were just beginning to come in and represented the most logical market for us to work in.
Jack Kilby

Work, Computers, Big

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 activity at that time.
Jack Kilby

Time, Home, Thought

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Scientist

Born: November 8, 1923

Died: June 20, 2005

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