Gordon Bell

"The most reliable components are the ones you leave out."

"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."

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

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

"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."

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