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.

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.

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.

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

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

Moore's Law - The number of transistors and resistors on a chip doubles every 24 months

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