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Chester Gordon Bell is an American electrical engineer and manager. An early employee of Digital Equipment Corporation 1960–1966, Bell designed several of their PDP machines and later became Vice President of Engineering 1972–1983, overseeing the development of the VAX computer systems. 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. Wikipedia  

✵ 19. August 1934
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Famous Gordon Bell Quotes

“Somebody once said, 'He's never wrong about the future, but he does tend to be wrong about how long it takes.”

Gordon Bell

Computer World "VAX Man" interview

“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

Computer World "VAX Man" interview

“The most reliable components are the ones you leave out.”

Gordon Bell

Reported in Stuart Borlase, ed., Smart Grids: Infrastructure, Technology, and Solutions (2013), p. 445.

“In 10 years, you'll see 99% of the hardware and software systems sold through what are fundamentally retail stores.”

Gordon Bell

Computer World "VAX Man" interview

“Microsoft NT…is going to be very far-reaching. It's going to grab the rug out from under Unix.”

Gordon Bell

Computer World "VAX Man" interview

“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

At the February 10, 1982, Ethernet Announcement at The World Trade Center with Bob Noyce of Intel and David Liddle of Xerox.

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