Jack Kilby Quotes

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

The number of parts that were required were just prohibitive.

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