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1. "I feel my story has been exercised very thoroughly and very frequently." ~ Jack Kilby
2. "I think it's doing very well. I'm pleased to see the concentration on semiconductors. I think this will help." ~ Jack Kilby
3. "I'm doing a little consulting. I'm somewhat retired, still a director of a company or two." ~ Jack Kilby
4. "It was really a very small company when I started and it changed very rapidly during those first periods." ~ Jack Kilby
5. "It's also somewhat in the center of a number of things that will be useful to the company." ~ Jack Kilby
6. "The first calculators tended to sell for $400 or $500. Today, you can get a pretty good one for 4 or $5." ~ Jack Kilby
7. "The number of parts that were required were just prohibitive." ~ Jack Kilby
8. "There was a space program before there was integrated circuits." ~ Jack Kilby
9. "They're very strong in memory. Didn't do very much in microprocessors or digital signal processing." ~ Jack Kilby
10. "Well, it's very dangerous to project, but it's clear that the existing technology has some more years to go." ~ Jack Kilby
11. "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
12. "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
13. "Today, people tend to credit me with having the original idea and made the first circuits." ~ Jack Kilby
14. "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
15. "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
16. "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
17. "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
18. "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
19. "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
20. "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

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