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. ↗

— Jack Kilby

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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

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

— Jack Kilby

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

— Jack Kilby

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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

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

— Jack Kilby

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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

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

— Jack Kilby

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

— Jack Kilby

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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

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