28 Quotes by Jack Kilby

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.

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.

Space was of interest, but a major driving factor was the interest in the military, which had much broader, more diverse needs, more urgency with it.

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.

There was a space program before there was integrated circuits.

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

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.

The number of parts that were required were just prohibitive.