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.
Meaning of the quote
When you're doing engineering, it's okay if things don't work out the first time. You can use those failures as a chance to try again next year and make your project even better. Failures aren't bad - in fact, you want them to happen quickly so you can learn from them and move forward faster. Mistakes are a normal part of the process, and they can help you make progress more quickly.
About Gordon Moore
Gordon Moore, the co-founder of Intel, proposed a famous law that predicted the exponential growth of transistors in integrated circuits. He was a pioneering businessman and engineer who played a crucial role in the development of the semiconductor industry.
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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.
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