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.

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.