"#3 pencils and quadrille pads.(when asked what CAD tools he used to design the Cray I supercomputer )"

-- Seymour Cray

#Witty Quotes #Humorous Quotes #Design Quotes

“The more I ponder some of the boneheaded decisions GOP candidates have made of late, I can't bring myself to believe that they are serious about capturing more than about 8 percent of the black vote.”
“There's a rhythm to the legislative session and there are rhythms to legislative sessions. So I think that's very important to take into consideration when you are deciding what to do when.”
“On the molecular scale, you find it's reasonable to have a machine that does a million steps per second, a mechanical system that works at computer speeds.”
“I think it's important to be accurate on the level of the word, but it's also important to be accurate at the level of the sentence, at the level of the paragraph. Sometimes you lose sight of that - I remind myself to go back and read.”
“Anger is like ice, and also quick to melt”
“The essence of competitiveness is liberated when we make people believe that what they think and do is important - and then get out of their way while they do it.”
“A stopped clock is correct twice a day, but a sundial can be used to stab someone, even at nighttime.”

Source : John Hodgman (2012). “More Information Than You Require”, p.268, Penguin
“Michael came home and asked, Would you like to write a song with me? I got this idea for a title called A Kiss at the End of a Rainbow. So we had a couple glasses of wine and wrote it.”

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