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Gordon Bell
6 quotes
“The most reliable components are the ones you leave out.”
Gordon Bell (1934–2024) first seen 2013 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Reported in Stuart Borlase, ed., Smart Grids: Infrastructure, Technology, and Solutions (2013), p. 445.
“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 (1934–2024) first seen 1982 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: At the February 10, 1982, Ethernet Announcement at The World Trade Center with Bob Noyce of Intel and David Liddle of Xerox.
“Microsoft NT...is going to be very far-reaching. It's going to grab the rug out from under Unix.”
Gordon Bell (1934–2024) said by 2024 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“In 10 years, you'll see 99% of the hardware and software systems sold through what are fundamentally retail stores.”
Gordon Bell (1934–2024) said by 2024 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“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 (1934–2024) said by 2024 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Somebody once said, 'He's never wrong about the future, but he does tend to be wrong about how long it takes.”
Gordon Bell (1934–2024) said by 2024 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source