If everything you try works, you aren't trying hard enough.
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.
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.
Moore's Law: the number of transistors in a dense integrated circuit doubles approximately every year. (First stated in 1965. Revised in 1975 to every two years.)
No physical quantity can continue to change exponentially forever. Your job is delaying forever.
One thing a leader does is to remove the stigma of mistakes.
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.
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