Jack Kilby Quotes

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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