Gordon Bell
Gordon Bell
C. Gordon Bellis an American electrical engineer and manager. An early employee of Digital Equipment Corporation1960–1966, Bell designed several of their PDP machines and later became Vice President of Engineering 1972-1983, overseeing the development of the VAX. Bell's later career includes entrepreneur, investor, founding Assistant Director of NSF's Computing and Information Science and Engineering Directorate 1986-1987, and researcher emeritus at Microsoft Research, 1995–2015...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionBusinessman
Date of Birth19 August 1934
CountryUnited States of America
The cheapest, fastest, and most reliable components are those that aren't there.
Computer scientists are the historians of computing.
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.
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.
The most reliable components are the ones you leave out.
I've never seen a job being done by a five-hundred-person engineering team that couldn't be done better by fifty people.