Gordon Bell quotes

The most reliable components are the ones you leave out. (Gordon Bell)

Somebody once said, 'He's never wrong about the future, but he does tend to be wrong about how long it takes.

Gordon Bell

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

Gordon Bell

People have no memory of phone numbers now because of the cell phone - their address book is in a cell phone.

Gordon Bell

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.

Gordon Bell

Twenty-five years from now...Computers will be exactly like telephones. They are probably going to be communicating all the time ... I would hope that by the year 2000 there is this big [networking] infrastructure, giving us arbitrary bandwidth on a pay-as-you-go basis.

Gordon Bell

In 10 years, you'll see 99% of the hardware and software systems sold through what are fundamentally retail stores.

Gordon Bell

Microsoft NT...is going to be very far-reaching. It's going to grab the rug out from under Unix.

Gordon Bell

A Broadband Cable for TV is like a sewer pipe that in principle can carry gas, water, and waste: it is easy to get all that shit in there, but hard to separate it out again.

Gordon Bell

I don't think forgetting is an important feature of human memory. I think it's important to be able to remember things accurately.

Gordon Bell

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 Bell)

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.

Gordon Bell

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