Jack Kilby Quotes

I'm fascinated with the electronic devices that we can mess around with.

Dad was very into electronics, robotics and computers, so I was interested in what he was doing.

The story of automation is the story of a one-way shift from human control to automatic control.

Today, there are industries employing hundreds of thousands of engineers creating artificial intelligence.

I started working at a point in history when digital computers were becoming mature, and before that, there were no such machines.

Technological developments are changing the way we live, and there is much talk of digitalisation and the disruptive business models enabled by smart phones, tablets, computers, and the 'Internet of things.'

I'm a big technology individual. I love science and technology, and anything that has to do with capturing events so that they can be experienced later.

Computers, like automobiles and airplanes, do only what people tell them to do.

In the future, I'm sure there will be a lot more robots in every aspect of life. If you told people in 1985 that in 25 years they would have computers in their kitchen, it would have made no sense to them.

Yeah, computers are going to take over the programming business because they have become so fast recently that they can solve the Halting Problem in five seconds flat.

The modern computer hovers between the obsolescent and the nonexistent.

Supercomputers will achieve one human brain capacity by 2010, and personal computers will do so by about 2020.

Technology is anything that wasn't around when you were born.

I think I was lucky to come of age in a place and time - the American South in the 1960s and '70s - when the machine hadn't completely taken over life. The natural world was still the world, and machines - TV, telephone, cars - were still more or less ancillary, and computers were unheard of in everyday life.

I hate the fact that so much of our life is computerised rather than mechanised.

I took computers in high school. I would do all my own programming, but I didn't see the future of computers for anything other than data processing. Who was going to use a computer for communications?

Looking back, video game design seems a natural fit, although there was no such thing when I was growing up. I built a Tic-Tac-Toe playing machine in my teens which went up in smoke on the night it was scheduled to go to a science fair.

Computers sort of came around through games and toys. And you know, the first computer most people had in the house may have been a computer to play 'Pong,' a little microprocessor embedded, and then other games that came after that.

The spread of computers and the Internet will put jobs in two categories. People who tell computers what to do, and people who are told by computers what to do.

The advanced arithmetical machines of the future will be electrical in nature, and they will perform at 100 times present speeds, or more., Moreover, they will be far more versatile than present commercial machines, so that they may readily be adapted for a wide variety of operations. They will be controlled by a control card or film, they will select their own data and manipulate it in accordance with the instructions thus inserted, they will perform complex arithmetical computations at exceedingly high speeds, and they will record results in such form as to be readily available for distribution or for later further manipulation.

Computers in the future may weigh no more than 1.5 tons.

A new era of production has begun. It's principles of organization are as different from those of the industrial era as those of the industrial era were different from the agricultural. The cybernation revolution has been brought about by the combination of the computer and the self-regulating machine. This results in a system of almost unlimited capacity which requires progressively less human labor. Cybernation is already reorganizing the economic and social system to meet its own needs .... As machines take over production from men, they absorb an increasing proportion of resources while men who are displaced become dependent on minimal and unrelated [to their work] governmental measures—unemployment insurance, social security, welfare payments.

The computer of today is really in its infancy.

... as the world rapidly becomes a civilization of machines, the masters of machines will increasingly be the ones in control of the world.

The idea behind digital computers may be explained by saying that these machines are intended to carry out any operations which could be done by a human computer.