Seymour Cray famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

If you were plowing a field, which would you rather use? Two strong oxen or 1024 chickens?
-- Seymour Cray

#Witty #Strong #Humorous
The trouble with programmers is that you can never tell what a programmer is doing until it's too late.
-- Seymour Cray

#Technology #Too Late #Trouble
Anyone can build a fast CPU. The trick is to build a fast system.
-- Seymour Cray

#Tricks
I talk to myself through the computer. I ask myself questions, leave things to be looked at again, things that you would do with a notepad. It turns out today that itâ€™s much better today to do with a personal computer rather than a notepad.
-- Seymour Cray

#Today #Computer
#3 pencils and quadrille pads.
-- Seymour Cray

#Funny #Witty #Pads
Parity is for farmers.
-- Seymour Cray

#Farmers
Farmers buy a lot of computers.
-- Seymour Cray

#Computer #Farmers
Thank heaven for startups; without them we'd never have any advances.
-- Seymour Cray

#Heaven
I'm supposed to be a scientific person but I use intuition more than logic in making basic decisions.
-- Seymour Cray

#Decision #Intuition #Use
I just bought a Mac to help me design the next Cray.
-- Seymour Cray

#Technology #Design #Next
Interesting - I use a Mac to help me design the next Cray.(when he was told that Apple Inc. had recently bought a Cray supercomputer to help them design the next Mac )
-- Seymour Cray

#Witty #Humorous #Apples
#3 pencils and quadrille pads.(when asked what CAD tools he used to design the Cray I supercomputer )
-- Seymour Cray

#Witty #Humorous #Design
One of my guiding principles is don't do anything that other people are doing. Always do something a little different if you can. The concept is that if you do it a little differently there is a greater potential for reward than if you the same thing that other people are doing. I think that this kind of goal for one's work, having obviously the maximum risk, would have the maximum reward no matter what the field may be.
-- Seymour Cray

#Hard Work #Thinking #People

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