Gordon Bell Quotes
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The most reliable components are the ones you leave out.
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I started working occasionally for my father when I was around six. The first skill I learned was how to join a plug to a wire.
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The cheapest, fastest, and most reliable components are those that aren't there.
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I don't think forgetting is an important feature of human memory. I think it's important to be able to remember things accurately.
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I'm on Facebook and Twitter, and occasionally I will tweet something. Somehow my problem is that I don't think I have anything interesting to tweet about.
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Well, I got to have a project. I'm not a blue-sky guy at all. I'd never let anybody like me loose in a company.
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People have no memory of phone numbers now because of the cell phone - their address book is in a cell phone.
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Computer scientists are the historians of computing.
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My mother had been a grade-school teacher, and my father had an eighth-grade education.
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I tend to always carry a camera with me. I live next to a fire station, and I've got lots of photos of the hook and ladder coming out of the house. And I like food, so I tend to photograph wonderfully presented food all the time. To me those are very pleasant memories.
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I've never seen a job being done by a five-hundred-person engineering team that couldn't be done better by fifty people.
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Every big computing disaster has come from taking too many ideas and putting them in one place.
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