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"Prune - prune businesses, products, activities, people. Do it annually."

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"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."


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


"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."


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


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


"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."


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


"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."


"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."
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