Gordon Moore
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.Collection: Technology
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.Collection: Failure
The computer is really a useful gadget for consuming time.
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 think Caltech fills a unique role, and it's not a cheap one. Their small size allows them to do interdisciplinary work a lot more effectively than anyplace else I know. The bigger universities get cast into silos.
Yes, from the time I was in junior high school I decided I wanted to be a chemist. I didn't quite know what a chemist was, but I kept it up and got my Ph.D. in physical chemistry.
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.
My first job out of school was to do basic research at Johns Hopkins University's applied physics lab.
I define myself as the accidental entrepreneur.
I had cataract surgery a while back.
If everything you try works, you aren't trying hard enough.Collection: Trying
Most of what I learned as an entrepreneur was by trial and error.Collection: Mistake
One thing a leader does is to remove the stigma of mistakes.Collection: Mistake
Moore's Law - The number of transistors and resistors on a chip doubles every 24 monthsCollection: Technology
No physical quantity can continue to change exponentially forever. Your job is delaying forever.Collection: Jobs
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.Collection: Impact
Moore's law is really about economics.Collection: Law
The number of transistors on an integrated circuit will double in about 18 months.Collection: Numbers