Gordon Bell
My mother had been a grade-school teacher, and my father had an eighth-grade education.Collection: Teacher
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.
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.
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.
People have no memory of phone numbers now because of the cell phone - their address book is in a cell phone.
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.
I don't think forgetting is an important feature of human memory. I think it's important to be able to remember things accurately.
The cheapest, fastest, and most reliable components are those that aren't there.Collection: Engineering
Every big computing disaster has come from taking too many ideas and putting them in one place.Collection: Ideas
I've never seen a job being done by a five-hundred-person engineering team that couldn't be done better by fifty people.Collection: Jobs
Computer scientists are the historians of computing.Collection: Computer
The most reliable components are the ones you leave out.Collection: Components