Gordon E. Moore, 94, was the co-founder of Intel. He died Friday March 24, 2023.
Quotable Quotes:
"What I could see was that semiconductor devices were the way electronics were going to become cheap. That was the message I was trying to get across. It turned out to be an amazingly precise prediction — a lot more precise than I ever imagined it would be."
[Dow Chemical] sent me to a psychologist to see how this would fit. The psychologist said I was OK technically but I'd never manage anything."
"Fortunately, very much by luck, we had hit on a technology that had just the right degree of difficulty for a successful start-up. This was how Intel began."
"Long before Apple, one of our engineers came to me with the suggestion that Intel ought to build a computer for the home. And I asked him, 'What the heck would anyone want a computer for in his home?'"
On his own "Moore's Law" - "It can't continue forever. The nature of exponentials is that you push them out and eventually disaster happens."
