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To: ManyMoose who wrote (128136)	7/28/2005 1:59:28 PM
From: Ilaine	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793897

To me, they are the real celebrities. I deeply admire artists, all artists, including fiction writers. Also deeply admire scientists. The ability to create something from nothing, or discover something which was never known or properly understood, these are truly admirable. But I also admire great thinkers in any field, be it law or physics, people who didn't invent anything new but thought of a better way to understand what we already know.

To: ManyMoose who wrote (128136)	7/28/2005 2:07:15 PM
From: Thomas A Watson	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793897

They labor alone and create children that make ever aspect of our lives, our thoughts and dreams possible. In the summer of 1958, Kilby was a newly employed engineer at Texas Instruments who did not yet have the right to a summer vacation. He spent the summer working on the problem in circuit design that was commonly called the "tyranny of numbers" and finally came to the conclusion that semiconductors could provide a solution. On September 12 he presented his findings to the management of Texas Instruments: he showed them a piece of germanium with an oscilloscope attached, pressed a switch, and the oscilloscope showed a continuous sine wave, proving that his integrated circuit worked and thus that he solved the problem. A patent for a "Solid Circuit made of Germanium", the first integrated circuit, was later filed on February 6, 1959. en.wikipedia.org