"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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"Illusion is the first of all pleasures."

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

Technology

"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."

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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."

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

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

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"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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"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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"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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"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."

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"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."

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