Ken Olsen Quotes

#1. I can't see any reason that anyone would want a computer of his own," DEC president Ken Olsen declared at a May 1974 meeting where his operations committee was debating whether to create a smaller version of its PDP-8 for personal consumers.

Walter Isaacson

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

Ken Olsen

#3. Software comes from heaven when you have good hardware.

Ken Olsen

#4. I just made up my mind that I was going to lose my teeth and have my face cut to pieces.

Johnny Bower

#5. Was good to see a dragon's teeth. A dragon with his mouth closed was far more likely to be working up a flame. That seemed completely obvious.

Rachel Hartman

#6. Since I got to the big leagues, there's been a whole lot of Direct-TV sold in Jamestown. People like to keep up with the local boy.

Darin Erstad

#7. Teamwork was more accepted 40 years ago.

Ken Olsen

#8. Faith never means gullibility. The man who believes everything is as far from God as the man who refuses to believe anything.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

#9. There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home.

Ken Olsen

#10. She has more goodness in her little finger than he has in his whole body.

Jonathan Swift

#11. 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.

Ken Olsen

#12. The Past is Experience, Thats All You Got to Learn From.

Mary Norton

#13. Songs don't wear out. Good songs are good now. If they were a comfort during those hard times in the past, they'll be a comfort in today's age.

Levon Helm

#14. I hate to sound cliche, but I understand why people love to cook. It's fun!

Jacob Young

#15. Is there any other way to be? I mean, this is it. This is my body, my soul; I gotta live with it. I'd better get comfortable. I plan on taking it for a long ride.

Cecil Castellucci

#16. Clothes are about manipulations: how I feel, how I want to feel and how I want others to feel about me.

Alexa Chung

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

Ken Olsen

#18. The reality is that if you always do what you've always done, you'll always be where you've always been.

James Emery White

#19. Funniest thing about love, how it shakes loose when no one's looking. How the dark helps it along. Maybe that's why we dug caves so much, way back when.

Catherynne M Valente

#20. I try to encourage people to identify the things in life that they really want to do, so that over a period of time they can design or steer their life towards those things.

Phil Keoghan