Semiconductors Quotes

• It was not so very long ago that people thought that semiconductors were part-time orchestra leaders and microchips were very small snack foods.

  Geraldine Ferraro

  Funny Inspirational, Memorable, Long Ago

  Geraldine Ferraro, Linda Bird Francke (1985). “Ferraro: My Story”, p.191, Northwestern University Press

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• I would say that hardware is the bone of the head, the skull. The semiconductor is the brain within the head. The software is the wisdom and data is the knowledge.

  Masayoshi Son

  Data, Skulls, Brain

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• Some people can do one thing magnificently, like Michelangelo, and others make things like semiconductors or build 747 airplanes -- that type of work requires legions of people. In order to do things well, that can't be done by one person, you must find extraordinary people.

  Steve Jobs

  Airplane, Order, People

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• One shouldn't work on semiconductors, that is a filthy mess; who knows whether any semiconductors exist.

  Wolfgang Pauli

  Filthy, Mess, Knows

  "Letter to Peierls". "Scientific Correspondence with Bohr, Einstein, Heisenberg a.o. Volume II: 1930–1939" by Wolfgang Pauli, September 29, 1931.

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• The next major explosion is going to be when genetics and computers come together. I'm talking about an organic computer - about biological substances that can function like a semiconductor.

  Alvin Toffler

  Science, Talking, Together

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• The cost of a semiconductor chip fabrication plant doubles every four years.

  Arthur Rock

  Years, Cost, Four

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• The technology [semiconductors] which has transformed practical existence is largely an application of what was discovered by these allegedly irresponsible [natural] philosophers.

  Cyril Norman Hinshelwood

  Technology, Philosopher, Natural

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• This year - a factory of semiconductors. Next year - a factory of whole conductors!

  Todor Zhivkov

  Years, Next Year, Factories

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• In order for the United States to do the right things for the long term, it appears to be helpful for us to have the prospect of humiliation. Sputnik helped us fund good science - really good science: the semiconductor came out of it.

  Bill Gates

  Order, Long, United States

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• Manufacturing takes place in very large facilities. If you want to build a computer chip, you need a giant semiconductor fabrication facility. But nature can grow complex molecular machines using nothing more than a plant.

  Ralph Merkle

  Giants, Needs, Machines

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• So I, I knew something in a business sense about semiconductors and I appreciated their possibilities.

  Arthur Rock

  Appreciated, Possibility, Business Sense

  Interview with Rob Walker, silicongenesis.stanford.edu. November 12, 2002.

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• It was at Bell Labs that I first made direct contact with real semiconductor experts and thus began to fully understand what amazing materials they were and what they could do.

  Robert B. Laughlin

  Real, Experts, Bells

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• One of the most striking developments has been the rise, fall and rise again of the semiconductor industry of the United States, which is, once again, the dominant player in the most advanced semiconductor product-markets.

  Peter Dicken

  Fall, Player, United States

  Peter Dicken (2003). “Global Shift: Reshaping the Global Economic Map in the 21st Century”, p.435, SAGE

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• We have been a fabless semiconductor company for a number of years now.

  David Milne

  Years, Numbers, Company

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• Well, I think first of all, probably the most fundamental thing is that we are a mixed-signal analog semiconductor company, which, along with some of the other well-known names in the industry, enjoys very good economics.

  David Milne

  Thinking, Names, Fundamentals

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• China has legally purchased high performance computers, advanced machine tools, and semiconductor-manufacturing equipment from several American companies.

  Charles Bass

  Tools, Machines, Computer

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