Bob Widlar was a truly great designer of analog ICs. He was wild
and totally unmanageable and had an odd sense of humor. The press loved
him and he had a flair for self-promotion. He shunned computer analysis,
preferring to breadboard his circuits, but time and time again he came up
with nuggets of design details and products which were thought to be
impossible. Burned out by the frenzy of Silicon Valley he moved to
Mexico, where he died in 1991 at age 53.