Kilby Quotes & Sayings

It doesn't matter if you don't love me right away," he said. "Just give me a chance. — Joan Kilby

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

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

The culmination of Sehnsucht [Longing, Joy] in the rhapsodic joy of heaven is, for me at least, the strongest single element in Lewis. In one way or other it hovers over nearly every one of his books and suggests to me that Lewis's apocalyptic vision is perhaps more real than that of anyone since St. John on Patmos. — Clyde S. Kilby

The world is a dangerous place to live; not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it." Albert Einstein — Gerald M. Kilby

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

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

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

I shall open my eyes and ears. Once every day I shall simply stare at a tree, a flower, a cloud, or a person. I shall not then be concerned at all to ask what they are but simply be glad that they are. I shall joyfully allow them their "divine, magical, and ecstatic" existence. — Clyde S. Kilby

Myth is necessary because reality is so much larger than rationality ... man is fundamentally mythic ... His real health depends upon his knowing and living his metaphysical totality. — Clyde S. Kilby

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

I don't know what the future holds. I only know that I want to be with you. You and me. Everything else is negotiable. — Joan Kilby

Her brain said, he's like a brother to you. Her body rejected that notion absolutely. Her heart was confused as hell. — Joan Kilby

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

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

His eyelashes fluttered, lips parted, and he moaned softly. "Kilby," he said my name so softly I wanted to weep from the sound. — Mercy Celeste

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

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

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

The day had come when he needed Cassy, and Cassy alone. No one, and nothing else, would satisfy him. — Joan Kilby

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Fuck you silly. The words just popped into his mind. Jesus. Where had that come from? — Joan Kilby

In our timidity and our shoddy opportunism we are always stirred when a man appears on the horizon willing to stake his all on a conviction. — Clyde S. Kilby