Ray Noorda Memorial Raymond John Noorda (1924 - 2006)

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• Obituary - (1)
• spouse: Tye Noorda
• Commonly-quoted Words of Wisdom
  • “Cause change and lead; accept change and survive; resist change and die.”
  • “Resist change and die, adapt to change and survive, create change and thrive.”
  • “Provoca cambios y dirige; acepta el cambio y sobrevive; resístete al cambio y muere.”
  • “Customers first, employees second, shareholders third. If you take care of the first two, the shareholders pretty much take care of themselves.”
  • “Take care of your employees…customers…partners, and Wall St. will take care of itself.”
  • coopetition
  • compete in the marketplace?
  • “You have to be able to compete and cooperate at the same time.”
  • “In mystery, there’s margin.”
  • loved to build companies and hire people
  • todo things I will explore
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• remembrances
  • Ray Noorda - Father of Network Computing - Tribute Video
  • Remembering Ray Noorda from David Strom
  • Waste Not... Want Not at Bootstrap Business
  • Ray Noorda, condensed from Eric Lundquist's 25 Most Influential Techies During 25 Years of PCWeek/eWEEK
  • Looking Back At The Life Of Ray Noorda, 'Grandfather' Of Networking Computing in Information Week
• more info
  • A short, nearly-accurate biography: see a few sections starting at The Entrepreneur from Surfing the High Tech Wave: A story of Novell's early years, 1980-1990
  • Wikipedia Entry
• what they called him
  • father of network computing
  • uncle ray
  • the grumpy grandfather of technology and "the grandfather from hell
  • dad

Ray Noorda's work continues at the Ray and Tye Noorda Foundation

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Ray's Favorite Christmas Music