Quotes by Gordon Moore

“With engineering, I view this years failure as next years opportunity to try it again. Failures are not something to be avoided. You want to have them happen as quickly as you can so you can make progress rapidly.”

“The technology at the leading edge changes so rapidly that you have to keep current after you get out of school. I think probably the most important thing is having good fundamentals.”

“I remember the difficulty we had in the beginning replacing magnetic cores in memories and eventually we had both cost and performance advantages. But it wasnt at all clear in the beginning.”

“We like the Jonah Field name because we work in the Jonah Field and spend a lot of time in it.”

“I really appreciate what theyre doing. They found the wealth and theyre giving something back, too.”

“I had no idea this was going to be an accurate prediction, but amazingly enough instead of 10 [years] doubling, we got nine over the 10 years, but still followed pretty well along the curve,”

“You cant get that stuff anymore,”

“I never had any idea that [the article] was going to be so precise,”

“I wasnt throwing down a gauntlet, I was trying to change the customers mind. A lot of these things would have happened anyhow,”

“A couple of ounces of dynamite makes for a great firecracker,”

The technology at the leading edge changes so rapidly that you have to keep current after you get out of school. I think probably the most important thing is having good fundamentals.