Ralph Ungermann

Ralph Kelley Ungermann (20 January 1942 – 2 June 2015) was an American engineer and entrepreneur. He is best known for founding Zilog with Federico Faggin and Ungermann-Bass with Charlie Bass. Due to his work at U-B, he was considered to be a founding father of the data communications industry.{{cite web | url=https://historyofcomputercommunications.info/section/9.11/ralph-ungermann-and-charlie-bass-and-the-founding-of-ungermann-bass/ | title=Ralph Ungermann and Charlie Bass and the Foundi

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"Nothing in moderation, everything to excess."

- Ralph Ungermann

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"I like to pioneer things, create a space that does not exist. If you can imagine it, you can create it. It is much more fun and challenging to create an industry, than to follow someone else"

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"Small mistakes kill big companies."

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"So what? You keep going. We also made, we took a gamble on broadband, made a go. We made a gamble on being able to provide an IBM compatible Token Ring, and we're doing that, and we picked MAP, and we missed. So we picked three out of four, and that hurts, but so what? We're going to keep going."

- Ralph Ungermann

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