Top 13 Semiconductors Quotes & Sayings

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

Computers and cellphones - which require semiconductors and microchips to work - have become so essential to life all over the world that it's easy to ignore the problems with building them.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

I've spent my entire career in semiconductors.

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.

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.

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

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