Jack Kilby Quotes

One thing about technology is that there's always a win, place, and show, and everyone else goes under.

In almost every technology area that we're ahead in, we're ahead in because the United States leads the world in computers.

I'm the one who made many of the bold comments that we'd seen the technologies from AMD as pretty good. Their technology in many areas was leading. But those are transient.

There's no question that technology is extraordinarily competitive.

Every technological advance we've made in the 21st century and throughout the 20th has come from the United States of America.

It's a mistake to believe technology rests outside India. We compete very successfully.

Despite global economic concerns, other nations are continuing to push forward and invest in their space capabilities. A U.S. withdrawal from the industry will only allow others to surge in their own capabilities, potentially impacting our national security and technology competitiveness in the future.

As one of the leaders in the world for AI, I feel tremendous excitement and responsibility to create the most awesome and benevolent technology for society and to educate the most awesome and benevolent technologists - that's my calling.

Throughout the history of communications, we've seen that the country that sets the pace in rolling out each new generation of wireless technology gains an economic edge.

We need to be at the forefront of technological development again.

The more powerful a technology greater care should be used to benefit fro it. India should not be left behind the world. From the past revolution of nuclear technology we saw how it could destruct and at the same time were useful for medical science.

There is a growing awareness that we're losing our technological competitive edge. I think there's an awareness that we're losing our leadership, and that maybe our self image over the past several decades has been a little bit delusional.

You can deceive yourself into thinking that America is a technological leader, but if you don't see what anyone else is doing you have no accurate assessment - you can't make an accurate assessment of where you fit and why. I consider our moving frontier in space as the anecdote to that downward trend.

Of course, technology is not an exogenous force over which humans have no control. We are not constrained by a binary choice between acceptance and rejection. Rather, the decisions we make every day as citizens, consumers, and investors guide technological progress.

From the first time that I went over to China, I think I was around the age of 17, 18, and just going there and seeing that their technology being years ahead of ours in America, it sparked something with me back then.

Technological change always accelerates. It never stagnates over time. Which means we are going to face the fact that, if nothing in the States changes, we will find ourselves dependent on other countries for almost everything that can and will be manufactured in a quickly approaching future.

In some ways, technology keeps on enhancing us, and we embrace it.

At the end of the day, we have to find a way to compete better with the world.

In an era of ever-increasing globalization, what it takes to become and remain a science superpower has fundamentally changed.

We will always work on technologies that are required in our market, which is India.

Any products associated with a Apple are going to win. The people who make the Apple products are going to win.

To ensure that the free world continues to set the rules of the road in the global economy, America and its allies must work together to continue to be the world's centers of innovation and technological advancement.

Putting our heads in the sand won't stop the inexorable advancement of technology.

We can only compete in the world against competitors from Asia, the United States, or wherever if we look at unmet needs.

The evolution of technology is, like the evolution of literature, heavily path-dependent. Culture plays a far more important role in the acceptance, adoption, and spread of technology than many of us are willing to acknowledge.