Seymour Cray quotes
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“If you were plowing a field, which would you rather use? Two strong oxen or 1024 chickens?”
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“The trouble with programmers is that you can never tell what a programmer is doing until it's too late.”
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“Anyone can build a fast CPU. The trick is to build a fast system.”
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“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 it’s much better today to do with a personal computer rather than a notepad.”
-- Seymour CraySource : "Video History interview". Interview witn David K. Allison for the Smithsonian Institution, May 9, 1955.
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“Thank heaven for startups; without them we'd never have any advances.”
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“I'm supposed to be a scientific person but I use intuition more than logic in making basic decisions.”
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“I just bought a Mac to help me design the next Cray.”
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“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 )”
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“#3 pencils and quadrille pads.(when asked what CAD tools he used to design the Cray I supercomputer )”
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“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 CraySource : Interview with David K. Allison for the Smithsonian Institution, May 9, 1995.
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