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Jack Kilby

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

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

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Donna Grant

""Think simple" as my old master used to say - meaning reduce the whole of its parts into the simplest terms, getting back to first principles."

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Donna Grant

"A little simplification would be the first step toward rational living, I think."

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Donna Grant

"The first is last, and the last is first."

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Donna Grant

"In Braille you write your flat sign first and then your note."

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Donna Grant

"I think Col. North is first a U.S. citizen and he has the same rights as you yourself do, sir."

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Donna Grant

"This is certainly not the first case in which a merger approved in one place hasn't gone through in the other. There was a case last year where the merger between two EU companies was approved here and blocked in the U.S."

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Donna Grant

"If you wish to avoid seeing a fool you must first break your looking glass."

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Donna Grant

"A lot of the advertisement is done by saying: first of all, have a complex about who you are."

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Donna Grant

"Manage yourself first and others will take your orders."

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Donna Grant

"I was really conscious of that when I went in because I felt that I was pretty solid on the first one, but I didn't have the groove exactly where I wanted it."

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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."

Work

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

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

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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."

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

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Jack 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."

Home

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

Memory

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

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Jack 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."

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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."

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