Andy Grove
Andy Grove
Andrew Stephen "Andy" Grovewas a Hungarian-born American businessman, engineer, author and a science pioneer in the semiconductor industry. He escaped from Communist-controlled Hungary at the age of 20 and moved to the United States where he finished his education. He was one of the founders and the CEO of Intel Corporation, helping transform the company into the world's largest manufacturer of semiconductors...
NationalityHungarian
ProfessionBusinessman
Date of Birth2 September 1936
technology fundamentals done
A fundamental rule in technology says that whatever can be done will be done.
sunset technology internet-users
Just as we could have rode into the sunset, along came the Internet, and it tripled the significance of the PC.
technology answers complacency
Not all problems have a technological answer, but when they do, that is the more lasting solution.
technology law tasks
Congress will pass a law restricting public comment on the Internet to individuals who have spent a minimum of one hour actually accomplishing a specific task while on line.
distance technology technological-change
Long distances used to be a moat that both insulated and isolated people from workers on the other side of the world. But every day, technology narrows that moat inch by inch. Every person in the world is on the verge of becoming both a coworker and a competitor to every one of us ... Technological change is going to reach out and sooner or later change something fundamental in your business world.
positive technology steel
Technology happens, it's not good, it's not bad. Is steel good or bad?
technology thinking knowing
I think Amazon is the preeminent pioneer in building a new way of doing commerce: personalized, database-driven commerce, where the big value is not in the purchase fulfillment, but in knowing as much about a customer base of ten or twenty million people as a corner store used to know about a customer base of a few hundred. In today's mass-merchandising world, that's largely gone; Amazon is trying to use computer technology to re-establish it.
technology winning flow
Technology will always win. You can delay technology by legal interference, but technology will flow around legal barriers.
technology leader today
Leaders have to act more quickly today. The pressure comes much faster.
mileage perhaps
Pickups, S.U.V.'s, vans and the like represent about 80 million vehicles, with mileage of perhaps 13 to 16 miles per gallon. Converting those should be our first priority.
entire goes line product strong year
We are intending a very, very strong make over of our entire product line as the year goes on,
assembly bloody designed running saw
I was running an assembly line designed to build memory chips. I saw the microprocessor as a bloody nuisance.
ambition hard-work elbows
You need just the right amount of ambition . . . If you have too little ambition, you don't push or work hard. If you have too much ambition, you put yourself ahead of others, elbow them out of your way.
change reign chaos
Let chaos reign, then rein in chaos.