Gordon Bell Professions : EngineerBorn : August 19, 1934 Browse All Authors Top 12 quotes by Gordon Bell The cheapest, fastest, and most reliable components are those that aren't there. Gordon Bell engineeringprogrammingsoftware Every big computing disaster has come from taking too many ideas and putting them in one place. Gordon Bell disasterbigsideas Computer scientists are the historians of computing. Gordon Bell historianscientistcomputer 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 probleminterestingthinking My mother had been a grade-school teacher, and my father had an eighth-grade education. Gordon Bell motherteacherfather 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 wireskillsfather 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 importantmemoriesthinking People have no memory of phone numbers now because of the cell phone - their address book is in a cell phone. Gordon Bell numbersmemoriesbook 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 guyskyblue 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 firehousememories The most reliable components are the ones you leave out. Gordon Bell components I've never seen a job being done by a five-hundred-person engineering team that couldn't be done better by fifty people. Gordon Bell teamjobsscience Similar Authors Alan Mulally engineer Bruce White engineer Augustin-Jean Fresnel engineer Arthur Rudolph engineer Aron Ralston engineer Anousheh Ansari engineerAll Authors
