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Founders Notes: Robert Noyce

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Intel Trinity,The Michael S. Malone Steve Jobs on Robert Noyce: "He was one of the giants in this valley who provided the model and inspiration for everything we wanted to become. He was the ultimate inventor. The ultimate rebel. The ultimate entrepreneur. Intel Trinity,The Michael S. Malone Comparisons have been made between the experience of being around Robert Noyce and the even more famous "reality distortion field" said to have surrounded his greatest acolyte, Steve Jobs. They were very different. Noyce's appeal was warm and visceral; Jobs' cold and ethereal. The Man Behind the Microchip Leslie Berlin Robert Noyce's favorite ski jacket featured a patch that declared "no guts, no glory." It was a fitting motto for a man who flew his own planes, chartered a helicopter to drop him on mountaintops so he could ski down through the trees... NOTE No guts no glory Intel Trinity,The Michael S. Malone Robert Noyce was a great man, but also a hugely complex, often contradictory, personality. He was the smartest man in almost any room and, even in middle age, the best athlete. He was hugely charismatic, yet also distant, private, and largely unknowable. He dismissed celebrity but took eve

Intel Trinity,The Michael S. Malone Steve Jobs on Robert Noyce: "He was one of the giants in this valley who provided the model and inspiration for everything we wanted to become. He was the ultimate inventor. The ultimate rebel. The ultimate entrepreneur. Intel Trinity,The Michael S. Malone Comparisons have been made between the experience of being around Robert Noyce and the even more famous "reality distortion field" said to have surrounded his greatest acolyte, Steve Jobs. They were very different. Noyce's appeal was warm and visceral; Jobs' cold and ethereal. The Man Behind the…

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