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Mathematics is an experimental science, and definitions do not come first, but later on.
I'm doing a little consulting. I'm somewhat retired, still a director of a company or two.
It's also somewhat in the center of a number of things that will be useful to the company.
Today, people tend to credit me with having the original idea and made the first circuits.
If you were plowing a field, which would you rather use? Two strong oxen or 1024 chickens?
The camera hound of the future wears on his forehead a lump a little larger than a walnut.
Publication has been extended far beyond our present ability to make real use of the record.
All military and most commercial aircraft use our designs that process power from jet engines.
The answer scrawled on a blank page in a daily newspaper, was conceived whilst aboard a ferry.
I suffer because my interactions with others do not meet the expectations I did not know I had.
In seven to ten years video traffic on the Internet will exceed data and voice traffic combined.
The excitement level for me working on projects is really not a bit different from when I was 26.
When we began Qualcomm, it had become quite clear that it was very important to patent new ideas.
The world, I think, will wait a long time for Nikola Tesla's equal in achievement and imagination.
I predict the Internet will soon go spectacularly supernova and in 1996 catastrophically collapse.
They're very strong in memory. Didn't do very much in microprocessors or digital signal processing.
The quickest way to experiencing the peace inside, is to learn to recognize when I am not at peace.
The most important outcome of education is to help students become independent of formal education.
Why should I refuse a good dinner simply because I don't understand the digestive processes involved?
I'm supposed to be a scientific person but I use intuition more than logic in making basic decisions.
#3 pencils and quadrille pads.(when asked what CAD tools he used to design the Cray I supercomputer )
If you aren’t even aware that the people in the organization disagree with you, then you are in trouble
The trouble with programmers is that you can never tell what a programmer is doing until it's too late.
Thus science may implement the ways in which man produces, stores, and consults the record of the race.
The first calculators tended to sell for $400 or $500. Today, you can get a pretty good one for 4 or $5.
It was really a very small company when I started and it changed very rapidly during those first periods.
Theory is the essence of facts. Without theory scientific knowledge would be only worthy of the madhouse.
New capabilities emerge just by virtue of having smart people with access to state-of-the-art technology.
My own interest developed because I thought it was a fascinating subject and something I wanted to pursue.
Well, it's very dangerous to project, but it's clear that the existing technology has some more years to go.
Fear cannot be banished, but it can be calm and without panic; it can be mitigated by reason and evaluation.
One hundred percent of our earnings are reinvested in the company, and a great deal of that goes to research.
I think it's doing very well. I'm pleased to see the concentration on semiconductors. I think this will help.
The theory of evolution is totally inadequate to explain the origin and manifestation of the inorganic world.
...there is no absolute scale of size in nature, and the small may be as important, or more so than the great.
No one ever won a chess game by betting on each move. Sometimes you have to move backward to get a step forward.
In network theory, the value of a system grows as approximately the square of the number of users of the system.
If you cannot be on the project each day to check on things, then you should not try and be your own contractor.
If necessity is the mother of invention, scientifically developed production is the mother of scientific research.
We try to preach innovation. We provide resources; we invite speakers in from universities to talk about new ideas.
We must not build on the sands of an uncertain and everchanging science...but upon the rock of inspired Scriptures.
The hinge is distinctly different, so when you look at it carefully, you recognize that it is its own unique design.
The world has arrived at an age of cheap complex devices of great reliability, and something is bound to come of it.
If it is love that makes the world go round, it is self-induction that makes electromagnetic waves go round the world.
There will always be plenty of things to compute in the detailed affairs of millions of people doing complicated things.
The world needs a better understanding of how to encourage innovation. And innovators need to get better at it. Sign me up.
You can't gaze in the crystal ball and see the future. What the Internet is going to be in the future is what society makes it.
A record, if it is to be useful to science, must be continuously extended, it must be stored, and above all it must be consulted.
The disadvantage of working over networks is that you can't so easily go into someone else's office and rip their bloody heart out.
I saw that there are people who will connive against innovation. They're hostile to it. And that has shaped my behavior ever since.