Best Semiconductors Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“What makes a silicon chip usable? Its resistance. What makes the human system usable? Its restrained resistance to the conductance of consciousness.”

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Author:Saroj Aryal

“Sir Isaac Newton famously said that he had achieved everything by standing on the shoulders of giants—the scientific men whose findings he built upon. The same might be said about silicon. After germanium did all the work, silicon became an icon, and germanium was banished to periodic table obscurity.”

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Book:The Disappearing Spoon: And Other True Tales of Madness, Love, and the History of the World from the Periodic Table of the Elements

Source: The Disappearing Spoon: And Other True Tales of Madness, Love, and the History of the World from the Periodic Table of the Elements

“The empires of steel are gone, replaced by empires of silicone.”

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Book:Peruvian Nights

Source: Peruvian Nights

“It has today occurred to me that an amplifier using semiconductors rather than vacuum is in principle possible. [Laboratory notebook, 29 Dec 1939.]”

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Author:William Shockley

“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.”

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Author:Steve Jobs

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

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Author:Wolfgang Pauli

“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.”

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Book:Global Shift: Reshaping the Global Economic Map in the 21st Century

Source: Global Shift: Reshaping the Global Economic Map in the 21st Century

“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.”

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Author:Masayoshi Son

“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.”

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Author:Bill Gates

“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.”

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Author:Ralph Merkle

“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.”

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Author:Alvin Toffler

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

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Author:Cyril Norman Hinshelwood

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

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Book:Ferraro: My Story

Source: Ferraro: My Story

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

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Author:Charles Bass

“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.”

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Author:Robert B. Laughlin

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

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Author:Arthur Rock

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

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Author:Todor Zhivkov

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

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Author:Arthur Rock

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

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Author:David Milne

“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.”

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Author:David Milne