Gordon Moore

Gordon Moore
Gordon Earle Mooreis an American businessman, co-founder and Chairman Emeritus of Intel Corporation, and the author of Moore's law. As of January 2015, his net worth is $6.7 billion...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionBusinessman
Date of Birth3 January 1929
CountryUnited States of America
couple dynamite great
A couple of ounces of dynamite makes for a great firecracker,
school technology thinking
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.
trying enough hard
If everything you try works, you aren't trying hard enough.
technology opportunity views
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.
numbers months programming
The number of transistors on an integrated circuit will double in about 18 months.
mistake leader doe
One thing a leader does is to remove the stigma of mistakes.
impact important would-be
If you'd asked me in 1980 what the big impact of microprocessors would be, I probably would have missed the PC. If you asked me in 1990 what was important, I probably would have missed the Internet.
mistake errors entrepreneur
Most of what I learned as an entrepreneur was by trial and error.
school technology careers
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.