Bob Gill Quotations

It's much harder to be an in-house person than an outside person.

I know that being an in-house person is much, much harder than being outside...that's why I've never had a job.

We need practice solving problems.

There's nothing in my head that's worth anything at all because it's the culture that put it there.

Counter the effects of culture (steering your design ideas) by going out and looking for new experiences.

When you have something truthful to say, it will design itself.

It's a vicious cycle. While systems become denser, their energy efficiency has decreased. Devices are getting smaller and smaller, but they are getting hotter.

The best way way to get a visual image is not to think of a visual image.

Forget all the rules you ever learned about graphic design.

Once you have the statement, it will design itself.

How do you do original work when culture is telling you which font face to use, which layout.

If you haven't read Alan Fletcher's The Art of Looking Sideways you should be arrested for calling yourself a Designer

Unless you can begin with an interesting problem, it is unlikely you will end up with an interesting solution.

No matter how many times your amazing, absolutely brilliant work is rejected by the client, for whatever dopey, arbitrary reason, there is often another amazing, absolutely brilliant solution possible. Sometimes it's even better.

I've never had a problem with a dumb client. There is no such thing as a bad client. Part of our job is to do good work and get the client to accept it.

Be stimulated by rejection

IBM customers are the least vulnerable, the least likely to switch. While customers of Hewlett-Packard and Sun are among the most.

Many expected to see improvements in server manageability, along with cost, energy, and space savings, and today's blades just aren't delivering those benefits across a range of configurations.

Users described interest and excitement over AMD's 64-bit Opteron server capabilities, citing price performance advantages over Intel-based boxes, both for 64-bit Linux installations, as well as running in 32-bit mode running Microsoft Windows Server 2003, ... With the 64-bit version of Windows Server, which is supported on Opteron, beginning to enter the market, users are hoping for even greater performance for Windows Server installations.

Safety is everyones responsibility, not just mine or the company, but the patron included.

The more they can integrate these products and make it easy, just like they do with the Small Business Server, is good for these administrators.

The community came up with the money because although we still need to focus our attention on brain development in students, we also need to concentrate on their physical development,