Bob Gill

Bob Gill
jobs house harder
I know that being an in-house person is much, much harder than being outside...that's why I've never had a job.
culture
There's nothing in my head that's worth anything at all because it's the culture that put it there.
energy efficiency hotter
It's a vicious cycle. While systems become denser, their energy efficiency has decreased. Devices are getting smaller and smaller, but they are getting hotter.
design statements
Once you have the statement, it will design itself.
jobs design dumb
I've never had a problem with a dumb client. There is no such thing as a bad client. Part of our job is to do good work and get the client to accept it.
mine patron safety
Safety is everyones responsibility, not just mine or the company, but the patron included.
across along benefits blades delivering expected range space
Many expected to see improvements in server manageability, along with cost, energy, and space savings, and today's blades just aren't delivering those benefits across a range of configurations.
advantages beginning both citing enter excitement greater hoping interest linux microsoft mode performance price running supported users version windows
Users described interest and excitement over AMD's 64-bit Opteron server capabilities, citing price performance advantages over Intel-based boxes, both for 64-bit Linux installations, as well as running in 32-bit mode running Microsoft Windows Server 2003, ... With the 64-bit version of Windows Server, which is supported on Opteron, beginning to enter the market, users are hoping for even greater performance for Windows Server installations.
rejection design
Be stimulated by rejection
interesting problem ends
Unless you can begin with an interesting problem, it is unlikely you will end up with an interesting solution.
design arbitrary matter
No matter how many times your amazing, absolutely brilliant work is rejected by the client, for whatever dopey, arbitrary reason, there is often another amazing, absolutely brilliant solution possible. Sometimes it's even better.
art calling designer
If you haven't read Alan Fletcher's The Art of Looking Sideways you should be arrested for calling yourself a Designer
fonts faces culture
How do you do original work when culture is telling you which font face to use, which layout.
new-experiences ideas design
Counter the effects of culture (steering your design ideas) by going out and looking for new experiences.