Tom Hill: Mr. Kimmel had the ability to work on a project and stay on it until it was completed. He didn't ever give up and whenever he got going on a project, that's all he thought about. 

Greg Robertson: He truly was a genius, and there's so many subject he was brilliant at and was very willing to share knowledge about how stuff worked. He shared it on a level that everybody could understand. He didn't try and overpower you. I mean, he just would explain how something would work. 

Thomas Hill III: If you got him talking about something he was interested in, then he became very animated. He loved to talk about politics or theology or engineering or photography or whatever he happened to be into. And so I, I just remember lots and lots of dinners where the topic would turn to something that Garmin was interested in, and then we would be off to the races on some type of a fantastic conversation. And I think what was most important about those – those conversations and many other interactions I had with Garmin as a child – he never treated me like a child. He never talked down to me. He never dumbed anything down. And instead of giving me the solution or telling me what to do, he would ask me questions. 

He would say, Do you think this would work? Or do you think this would work better? And what would you think about this? And he guided me through figuring out from a system's view how to solve the problem I was trying to solve.