Gordon Bell Quotes

• The cheapest, fastest, and most reliable components are those that aren't there.

  Gordon Bell

  Engineering, Programming, Software

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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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  Jobs, Team, Science

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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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  Ideas, Disaster, Bigs

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• My mother had been a grade-school teacher, and my father had an eighth-grade education.

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  Mother, Teacher, Father

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• The most reliable components are the ones you leave out.

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  Components

  "Smart Grids: Infrastructure, Technology, and Solutions". Book edited by Stuart Borlase, 2012.

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• Computer scientists are the historians of computing.

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  Computer, Scientist, Historian

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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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  Father, Skills, Wire

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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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  Memories, Book, Numbers

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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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  Thinking, Interesting, Problem

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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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  Memories, Thinking, Important

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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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  Blue, Sky, Guy

  "Remember This?" by Alec Wilkinson, www.newyorker.com. May 28, 2007.

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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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  Memories, Fire, House

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