Ken Olsen Quotations

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

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

Software comes from heaven when you have good hardware.

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

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.

We make the solutions up out of modules, so they're all standard, ... They're built for security, reliability, ease of expansion and ease of changing. They're the ideas we had many years ago that tend to get lost today.

We really need it because Microsoft keeps releasing sloppier and sloppier software that needs a faster and faster machine. The speed is crazy.

We don't play fully equipped, so to speak, so it's not a goal if the puck is off the ice. It's not about getting injured, it's about having fun.

It's a fairly astronomical amount. We can't just write a check for that amount.

There's years he puts, on top of his job, 35, 40 hours a week into it.

Teamwork was more accepted 40 years ago.

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

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