Gordon Moore
is the co-founder of Intel Corporation and also the person behind Moore’s law
about semiconductors. He is a recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom
and IEEE Medal of Honor in 2008.
He’s currently
worth about $4.6bn according to Forbes. Here are some of his quotes:
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“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.”
“A couple
of ounces of dynamite makes for a great firecracker.”
“The
number of transistors incorporated in a chip will approximately double every 24
months.”
“With
engineering, I view this year’s failure as next year’s 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.”
“It is
extremely unlikely that anyone coming out of school with a technical degree
will go into one area and stay there. Today’s students have to look forward to
the excitement of probably having three or four careers.”
“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
wasn’t at all clear in the beginning.”
“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.”
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