I once spoke (well, listened) to a retired old-school Silicon Valley hardware engineer once who told me that ~80% of the projects he worked on never saw the lig

I once spoke (well, listened) to a retired old-school Silicon Valley hardware engineer once who told me that ~80% of the projects he worked on never saw the light of day, never became products. Eighty percent, of hardware. It put things in perspective for me as a software guy.