Gordon Moore Quotes
18 quotes from Gordon Moore — Co-founder of Intel and author of Moore's Law (transistor density doubles every ~2 years), which predicted the pace of….
“The number of transistors on a microchip doubles about every two years, though the cost of computers is halved.”
“No exponential is forever...but we can delay 'forever.”
“The future of integrated electronics is the future of electronics itself.”
“The most important applications of the integrated circuit will be those which we cannot now foresee.”
“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.”
“With engineering, I view this year's failure as next year's opportunity to try it again. Failures are not something to be avoided.”
“If the auto industry advanced as rapidly as the semiconductor industry, a Rolls Royce would get half a million miles per gallon, and it would be cheaper to throw it away than to park it.”
“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.”
“The complexity for minimum component costs has increased at a rate of roughly a factor of two per year.”
“It is extremely unlikely that anyone coming out of school with a technical degree will go into one area and stay there.”
“One thing a leader does is to remove the stigma of mistakes.”
“If everything you try works, you aren't trying hard enough.”
“One of the things that made it work was that all eight of us were in, and each of us had a different specialty. We were a prepackaged solution.”
“It's not a law in any real respect. It was an observation and a projection.”
“We just tried to move the technology at as fast a rate as made sense, and it turns out that it pretty much stays on the same curve.”
“We're up approaching 10 to the 17th transistors per year. 10 to the 17th is a number that we use quite a bit when we're talking about atoms and things like that. When you're talking about something that's manufactured, a transistor, it takes a few comparisons to try to put it in perspective.”
“A lucky guess that got a lot more publicity than it deserved.”
“I can't see anything else that has gone on for such a long time with exponential growth.”
