Microprocessor Quotes

• You don't have conversations with microprocessors. You tell them what to do, then helplessly watch the disaster when they take you literally!

  David Brin

  Watches, Disaster, Conversation

  David Brin (2010). “Startide Rising”, p.236, Spectra

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• If transportation technology was moving along as fast as microprocessor technology, then the day after tomorrow I would be able to get in a taxi cab and be in Tokyo in 30 seconds.

  Danny Hillis

  Motivation, Moving, Inspiration

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• The microprocessor is a miracle.

  Bill Gates

  Miracle

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• Every time you turn on your new car, you're turning on 20 microprocessors. Every time you use an ATM, you're using a computer. Every time I use a settop box or game machine, I'm using a computer. The only computer you don't know how to work is your Microsoft computer, right?

  Scott McNealy

  Funny, Humor, Games

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• Our modern lifestyle is not a political creation. Before 1700, everybody was poor as hell. Life was short and brutish. It wasn't because we didn't have good politicians; we had some really good politicians. But then we started inventing - electricity, steam engines, microprocessors, understanding genetics and medicine and things like that. Yes, stability and education are important - I'm not taking anything away from that - but innovation is the real driver of progress.

  Bill Gates

  Real, Medicine, Political

  "Bill Gates: The Rolling Stone Interview". Interview with Jeff Goodell, www.rollingstone.com. March 13, 2014.

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• There are a lot of new things going on in the microprocessor world, including increased focus on power and efficiency.

  Michael Dell

  Focus, World, Efficiency

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• If you'd asked me in 1980 what the big impact of microprocessors would be, I probably would have missed the PC. If you asked me in 1990 what was important, I probably would have missed the Internet.

  Gordon Moore

  Impact, Important, Would Be

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• It's like when IBM drove a lot of innovation out of the computer industry before the microprocessor came along. Eventually, Microsoft will crumble because of complacency, and maybe some new things will grow. But until that happens, until there's some fundamental technology shift, it's just over.

  Steve Jobs

  Technology, Innovation, Microsoft

  Steve Jobs (0101). “Motivating Thoughts of Steve Jobs”, p.47, Prabhat Prakashan

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• Because I had visited Silicon Valley, I recognized the microprocessor was going to lead the second industrial revolution. We Chinese could not miss that opportunity again - we missed the first industrial revolution already. We put our effort into trying to bring this new technology from the United States to Taiwan. That was the begining of Acer.

  Stan Shih

  Technology, Opportunity, Effort

  Source: www.sfgate.com

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• Intel's Pentium III processor operating at 1 GHz is the highest performance microprocessor for PCs, enabling Intel's customers to ship the fastest personal computers in the world.

  Paul Otellini

  World, Enabling, Ships

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• Really great blogs do not take the place of great microprocessors. Great blogs do not replace great software. Lots and lots of blogs does not replace lots and lots of sales.

  Larry Ellison

  Doe, Software, Really Great

  "Special Report: Can That Guy in Ironman 2 Whip IBM in Real Life?". www.reuters.com. May 13, 2010.

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• I like stuff designed by dead people. The old designers. They always got it right because they didn't have to grow up with computers. All of the people that made the spoon and the dishes and the vacuum cleaner didn't have microprocessors and stuff. You could do a good design back then.

  John Maeda

  Growing Up, People, Design

  "John Maeda Goes Meta On Design". Interview with Kim Zetter, www.wired.com. March 8, 2007.

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