Min Kao Quotes

The AEC had at its command an army of highly skilled scientists.

What I found in Silicon Valley is an industry that's sort of been kept a very far remove from Washington and had an attitude of 'Just let us do our thing and make the miracles that people love around the world and leave us alone.'

What's important for all of us as chip companies is to keep the innovation going: putting out new products, figuring out how we connect these complex systems.

Both humanity's capacity to innovate and the incentives to innovate are greater today than at any other time in history.

... the most technologically advanced border project ever

The Discovery was the most intricate, complex machine man has ever built. It's a testament to our time.

We love serious technology innovations, and there is a strong bias towards large technology innovations that are sort of disruptive to the current market.

Many of our advances in science and technology were seeded through government.

I think that we're on a path that Apple was determined to be on since the '70s, which was to try and make technology relevant and personal.

Taiwan must find its own way. We have been emphasizing too much the manufacturing business. We have to become more high-tech, more innovative, and provide more value. We can't always insist on the value of low-cost production. We have to invest more in R&D to get high-value business.

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

Israel now has a reputation around the world of being not just a place to develop products and technology but to develop ideas.

As the OLPC laptop was getting ready to go into mass production in 2007, many executives approached me wanting the screen that I invented, and the laptop architecture that I co-invented, for their new laptops, cell phones, and other devices.

Boeing has won in the marketplace for 100 years because of innovation, and we need to continue to invest in innovation for the future. And our cash generation strength is what allows us to do that.

Microsoft wasn't born as an enterprise company. We have always been growing with end users in mind.

Since its inception, HCL's core focus area has been technology and product development, and hence, we continued to remain in the high end of technology throughout the '90s.

I always admired the U.S. as the country of the space shuttle, of technological achievement.

We're going to design future cars the way people design airplanes. Except we have to use so much technology and ingenuity to reduce its cost and its form factor. We can't afford to have a jet plane. That would be great if could.

Top technologists have a tremendous capacity - and, therefore, a tremendous responsibility - to build things that make a positive impact on the world.

Not all of Microsoft's businesses are successful, but they have every technology possible.

On the day he unveiled the Macintosh, a reporter from Popular Science asked Jobs what type of market research he had done. Jobs responded by scoffing, "Did Alexander Graham Bell do any market research before he invented the telephone?

Washington is no place in which to carry out inventions

The people who built Silicon Valley were engineers. They learned business, they learned a lot of different things, but they had a real belief that humans, if they worked hard with other creative, smart people, could solve most of humankind's problems. I believe that very much.

The best technology is aimed far enough in the future that it stands out, but close enough to the present that it blends in.

Any technology that does not appear magical is insufficiently advanced.