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. A…

- Gordon Bell

The cheapest, fastest, and most reliable components are those that aren't there.

- Gordon Bell

Every big computing disaster has come from taking too many ideas and putting them in one place.

- Gordon Bell

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

The most reliable components are the ones you leave out.

- Gordon Bell

Computer scientists are the historians of computing.

- Gordon Bell

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

My mother had been a grade-school teacher, and my father had an eighth-grade education.

- Gordon Bell

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