Robert Noyce
An American physicist and entrepreneur who co-founded Fairchild Semiconductor and Intel Corporation, and is credited with the invention of the integrated circuit.
Most quoted
"Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them; that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like."
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"The biggest risk is not taking any risk. In a world that's changing really quickly, the only strategy that is guaranteed to fail is not taking risks."
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"Optimism is an essential ingredient for innovation. How else can the individual welcome change over security, adventure over staying in safe places?"
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All quotes by Robert Noyce (357)
Don't be encumbered by history, just go out and do something wonderful.
If you're going to be a bear, be a grizzly.
When you're starting a company, you don't have time to be polite.
Silicon Valley is not a place, it's a state of mind.
Risk-taking is essential to innovation.
The semiconductor industry is a young man's game.
We were young, we were naive, and we were hungry.
The biggest challenge is not inventing something new, but making it useful.
Competition is good. It forces you to do your best.
You have to be willing to fail to succeed.
We didn't set out to build a company, we set out to build a technology.
Technology is not an end in itself, but a means to an end.
Innovation is not about doing something new, it's about doing something better.
The most important thing is to keep learning.
We were driven by the desire to make things smaller, faster, and cheaper.
You have to be passionate about what you do.
The integrated circuit made personal computing possible.
Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.
We were a bunch of young guys who thought we could change the world.
Good ideas are a dime a dozen. Execution is what matters.
Contemporaries of Robert Noyce
Other Inventions born within 50 years of Robert Noyce (1927–1990).