Gordon Bell quotes
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“The cheapest, fastest, and most reliable components are those that aren't there.”
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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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“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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“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.”
-- Gordon BellSource : "Remember This?" by Alec Wilkinson, www.newyorker.com. May 28, 2007.
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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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“My mother had been a grade-school teacher, and my father had an eighth-grade education.”
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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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“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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“The most reliable components are the ones you leave out.”
-- Gordon BellSource : "Smart Grids: Infrastructure, Technology, and Solutions". Book edited by Stuart Borlase, 2012.
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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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“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.”
-- Gordon Bell
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