Quotes About Semiconductors

#1. One shouldn't work on semiconductors, that is a filthy mess; who knows whether any semiconductors exist.

Wolfgang Pauli

#2. Optimization tells us precisely how to diversify the portfolio, whether I should have 12% in semiconductors or 4% in biotech, etc., and it literally tells me how to diversify not only the industry groups but the stocks.

Louis Navellier

#3. It was not so very long ago that people thought that semiconductors were part-time orchestra leaders and microchips were very small snack foods.

Geraldine Ferraro

#4. Digital imaging is as much about chemistry as it is about semiconductors.

Antonio Perez

#5. 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.

Steve Jobs

#6. His fingerprints are all over today's technologies. Photoelectric cells and lasers, nuclear power and fiber optics, space travel, and even semiconductors all trace back to his theories.

Walter Isaacson

#7. It has today occurred to me that an amplifier using semiconductors rather than vacuum is in principle possible.
[Laboratory notebook, 29 Dec 1939.]

William Shockley

#8. So I, I knew something in a business sense about semiconductors and I appreciated their possibilities.

Arthur Rock

#9. This year - a factory of semiconductors. Next year - a factory of whole conductors!

Todor Zhivkov

#10. If we are ever to cross the 100-nano barrier in electronics, we need to develop nano structures that let electrons move through, as they do through wires and semiconductors. And these structures must survive in the real world of air, water, boiling temperatures.

Richard Smalley

#11. All the action, in semiconductors at the present time is in the new consumer applications, and that's where we have focused our activities since we started doing our own products in the late '90s.

David Milne

#12. I think it's doing very well. I'm pleased to see the concentration on semiconductors. I think this will help.

Jack Kilby

#13. The technology [semiconductors] which has transformed practical existence is largely an application of what was discovered by these allegedly irresponsible [natural] philosophers.

Cyril Norman Hinshelwood

#14. The soul was never put in the body to stand still.

John Webster

#15. The Revolution is your bride," he said. "As the Church is the Bride of Christ.

Hilary Mantel

#16. Just like that, everything was very different between them.

Rhiannon Frater

#17. When Death comes, I want to be ready.

Chris Smith

#18. The leaves that are green turn to brown. And they wither with the wind. And they crumble in your hand.

Paul Simon

#19. Nobody tells us as little girls that we may fall in love and have moments of hating our beloved, or have ridiculous arguments at 2 AM over something that neither person understands.

SARK

#20. I don't write just to be clever. But sometimes I do. And if you don't have an understanding of the language, then the way in which it's bent doesn't actually register. It's the old you-gotta-paint-like-them-before-you-can-paint-like-you thing.

Joss Whedon

#21. The most important thing in skating is finding your center. There is nothing better than Skate Spinner to do this - not even skates!

Karen Magnussen

#22. Last time Congress passed a major six-year transportation bill was in 1997, since then there have been 21 short-term extensions.

Ray LaHood

#23. He leaned in close and spoke low. Wow, I don't know what the hell I did to put that look on your face, but you need to write it down so I can commit it to memory.

Shelly Crane

#24. This is the age of the apartment. Not only in the great cities, but in the smaller centers of civilization the apartment has come to stay ... A decade ago the apartment was considered a sorry makeshift in America, though it has been successful abroad for more years than you would believe.

Elsie De Wolfe

#25. Movies are full of leading men, most of whom aren't working. It's much harder to find a good villain.

Lee Van Cleef

#26. Literary imagination is an aesthetic object offered by a writer to a lover of books.

Gaston Bachelard

#27. As someone with a deep faith in competition and the market, I also know that markets only work with tough enforcement of the rules that guarantee competition and fair play - and that the pressure to break those rules only gets stronger as the amount of money involved gets larger.

Eliot Spitzer

#28. As in the old Irish blessing, may God give you, for every storm, a rainbow; for every tear, a smile. For every care, a promise; a blessing for every trial. For every problem life sends, a faithful friend to share; for every sigh, a sweet song, and an answer for every prayer.

Sandra D. Bricker