Irwin M. Jacobs Quotes & Sayings

“At Linkabit, we put little effort and energy into patenting things.”

“We try to preach innovation. We provide resources; we invite speakers in from universities to talk about new ideas.”

“When we began Qualcomm, it had become quite clear that it was very important to patent new ideas.”

“While I was at Cornell in engineering, I was an engineering co-op student, and that turned out to be very valuable because we'd go out every other term to work in industry and have that close association with industry.”