It’s a cool blog post for all technology nerds and semiconductor crazies out there, sure to electrify your circuits and get your funny bone charged up. Today, we’re wading through clever semiconductor quotes are as good as resistors in a circuit, by the way.
Steve Jobs
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.
Ralph Markle
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. He is the inventor of public-key cryptograph
Klaus von Klitzing
Semiconductor research and the Nobel Prize in physics seem to be contradictory since one may come to the conclusion that such a complicated system like a semiconductor is not useful for very fundamental discoveries. He is a German physicist.
Alvin Toffler
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.
Dave Barry
Hardware: where the people in your company’s software section will tell you the problem is. Software: where the people in your company’s hardware section will tell you the problem is. —
Bill Gates
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.
Andrej Karpathy
A friend yesterday mentioned that semiconductor tech is probably the deepest node in our civilization’s explored tech tree. This actually sounds right, but is also a fun concept, any other candidates?
Ernest Braun
The history of semiconductor physics is not one of grand heroic theories, but one of painstaking intelligent labor. Not strokes of genius producing lofty edifices, but great ingenuity and endless undulation of hope and despair. Not sweeping generalizations, but careful judgment of the border between perseverance and obstinacy. Thus the history of solid-state physics in general, and of semiconductors in particular, is not so much about great men and women and their glorious deeds, as about the unsung heroes of thousands of clever ideas and skillful experiments—reflection of an age of organization rather than of individuality. He is British-Austrian scholar in technology policy and technology assessment.
Masayoshi Son
It was not so very long ago that people thought that semiconductors were part-time orchestra leaders and microchips were very small snack foods. 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. He is Japanese billionaire technology entrepreneur.
These semiconductor quotes reveal the thinking of great scientists, entrepreneurs and scholars about semiconductor and its booming industry. Which one was your favorite?
