Designing high-performance microprocessors requires first-principles thinking, managing the order-complexity trade-off, and periodically clearing the plate to reset design methodologies.

“when i joined the amp the cpus were less than half as fast as the competition and they had no plan to catch up so that that wasn't that hard no but what would be hard there i would presume is figuring out how it could be that such an obvious problem had gone undetected and unsolved”