Top 18 Quotes & Sayings by Gordon Moore

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American businessman Gordon Moore.

Last updated on November 8, 2024.

Gordon Earle Moore is an American businessman, engineer, and the co-founder and chairman emeritus of Intel Corporation. He is also the author of Moore's law.

American - Businessman | Born: January 3, 1929

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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.

Gordon Moore

I define myself as the accidental entrepreneur.

Gordon Moore

The computer is really a useful gadget for consuming time.

Gordon Moore

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.

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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.

Gordon Moore

I had cataract surgery a while back.

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.

Gordon Moore

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.

Gordon Moore

My first job out of school was to do basic research at Johns Hopkins University's applied physics lab.

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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.

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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.

Gordon Moore

No physical quantity can continue to change exponentially forever. Your job is delaying forever.

Gordon Moore

Moore's law is really about economics.

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If everything you try works, you aren't trying hard enough.

Gordon Moore

The number of transistors on an integrated circuit will double in about 18 months.

Gordon Moore

One thing a leader does is to remove the stigma of mistakes.

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