Tech talk

Research-Technology Management, Sept-Oct, 2002

"In terms of raw talent, the Master's and Ph.D students [in China] are absolutely outstanding."--James Yeh, director of IBM's China Research Laboratory, on CNET News.com, July 9.

"Our selection process for managers needs to put more weight on their experience with and loyalty to the firm, and less on their charisma and celebrity status."--Economist Robert J. Shiller in The Wall Street Journal, June 27, p. A20.

"The engine of real economic growth is not technology but innovation."--Advanced Micro Devices CEO Hector de J. Ruiz, in Fast Company, July, p. 72.

"The principal applications of any sufficiently new and innovative technology always have been and will continue to be applications created by that new technology--Physicist Herbert Kroemer, Nobel prize winner and 2002 IEEE Medalist for his semiconductor research, quoted in IEEE Spectrum, June 2002, p. 33