Ken Olsen quotes:

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  • On almost anything someone does in the computer business, you can go back in the literature and prove someone had done it earlier.

  • Software comes from heaven when you have good hardware.

  • Teamwork was more accepted 40 years ago.

  • The nicest thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from.

  • When I was a teenager in the late 30's and early 40's, electronics wasn't a word. You were interested in radio if you were interested in electronics.

  • There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in their home.

  • Not a single, substantial, commercially-successful product had come from an adequately-finded team. They'd always come from the scrounging, scrapping, underfunded teams.

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