The technology at the leading edge changes so rapidly that you have to keep current after you get out of school. I think probably the most important thing is having good fundamentals.

He is the recipient of the National Medal of Technology and the Presidential Medal of Freedom the United States' highest civilian honor. In April 1979 Dr. The library at the Centre for Mathematical Sciences at the University of Cambridge is named after him and his wife Betty as is the Moore Laboratories building (dedicated 1996) at Caltech.