Jack Kilby Professions : Electrical engineer Born : November 8, 1923 Died : June 20, 2005 Browse All Authors Top 24 quotes by Jack Kilby Well, the big products in electronics in the '50s were radio and television. The first big computers were just beginning to come in and represented the most logical market for us to work in. Jack Kilby computers beginning work television It's true that the original idea was mine, but what you see today is the work of probably tens of thousands of the world's best engineers, all concentrating on improving the product, reducing the cost, things of that sort. Jack Kilby best you work today Well, the thought that everybody might have a personal computer at their desk or their home was certainly not on the mainstream of anybody's activity at that time. Jack Kilby personal thought home time I think I thought it would be important for electronics as we knew it then, but that was a much simpler business and electronics was mostly radio and television and the first computers. Jack Kilby computers think important business Similar Authors Arthur E. Kennelly electrical-engineer Andy Bechtolsheim electrical-engineer Amar Bose electrical-engineer Irwin M. Jacobs electrical-engineer Dov Frohman electrical-engineer Harold Stephen Black electrical-engineer All Authors