Jack Kilby Quotes

Jack Kilby — American Scientist born on November 08, 1923, died on June 20, 2005

Jack St. Clair Kilby was an American electrical engineer who took part in the realization of the first integrated circuit while working at Texas Instruments in 1958. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in physics on December 10, 2000. To congratulate him, US President Bill Clinton wrote, "You can take pride in the knowledge that your work will help to improve lives for generations to come.".. (wikipedia)

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

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.

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

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.

There was a space program before there was integrated circuits.

Jack Kilby Quotes

Jack Kilby Quotes

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