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Gordon Moore

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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Gordon Moore suggests that failing in engineering is a necessary step toward improvement, as each failure provides valuable information for the next attempt. He believes encountering failures early and often speeds up learning and development rather than hindering progress.

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Don't take too much comfort in the fact that you're successful today because tomorrow could bring failure. There's no surety in life.