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

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

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.

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

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

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.