Jack Kilby Quotes

At Tencent, we may be businessmen, but we are still chasing our IT, our science. We are still striving to create something really cool, trying to create things we couldn't even imagine without our new technologies. I am still clinging to this enthusiasm.

Even some of the greatest technology-led revolutions, or allegedly technology-led, really were only made possible because of trends already present.

The pace of innovation may slow down or speed up depending on the appetite in the public markets, but the constant progress of technology doesn't really ever stop. There's always opportunities for new ideas and creative people to go build great things. I'm always interested in learning about those kinds of opportunities.

A whole bunch of big technological shocks occurred when Asian innovations - paper, gunpowder, the stirrup, the moldboard plow and so on - came to Europe via the Silk Road.

You always need to be on the lookout for the next kind of great technology.

Technology... is a queer thing. It brings you great gifts with one hand, and it stabs you in the back with the other.

At the present time, when railways, the telegraph, the telephone, to say nothing of other inventions and improvements of importance, have simplified communication between all lands and nations to the last degree, there is scarcely any reason to fear either distance or the estrangement of the several parts of a single whole. Practically distance is almost nonexistent. What to our ancestors appeared simply near at hand now seems to lie immediately before our eyes

I'm definitely a techno-optimist. I think we can do amazing things. But in my experience, if a thing has great potential, there is also a risk of great downsides, so to speak. Coming from a truly, really enthusiastic 'wow decade,' we are now moving into waters where we are somewhat more cautious.

Innovation and commerce are as powerful tools for creating social progress as they are for driving technological advancement.

Technology is probably the single biggest driver of productivity gains for the developed countries. For example, I think it's much more important than free trade.

The world may not be getting better and better, but our devices are getting newer and newer.

Our lives and our culture have been significantly changed and improved by hardware, software, and services developed by immigrants.

My obsession is with technology and how it can improve human life. In my view, what we have seen in the last 300 years is only a trailer.

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

Our competitors outside Europe are manufacturing goods cheaper and better. Through innovation, other countries are producing new products which we do not make yet, but which we could.

Industrialisation, mass transit, and the Internet are technological revolutions that have reshaped lives, nations, and the planet.

Engineers and entrepreneurs are fundamentally dissatisfied with the way the world is and want to make it better. There are so many things you could do with technology if you can match it up with real problems.

The AV ecosystem is constantly evolving, and no single winner will be crowned.

I am patiently waiting for the singularity.

Our successes have been so great and so rapid that, within 20 years, we've gotten a third of the world's population online, shrunk our computers to the size of our hands, and connected each to each.

Are machines getting more and more powerful? Absolutely. It's been going on since 1940. We are making progress, and for many people, it will be a lifesaver.

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.

As a factual matter, as in countries all over the world, technology and business practices have been running faster than legal responses and developments.

Worldwide access to electronic parts has truly opened up the opportunity for innovation for engineers of all levels. It's an incredible time to be alive.

Every generation’s breakthroughs are proven false by the next generation’s Technology