If you were plowing a field, which would you rather use? Two strong oxen or 1024 chickens? Seymour Cray More Quotes by Seymour Cray More Quotes From Seymour Cray The trouble with programmers is that you can never tell what a programmer is doing until it's too late. Seymour Cray coderstechnologytoo-late 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-worksciencethinking 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 appleshumorouswitty Anyone can build a fast CPU. The trick is to build a fast system. Seymour Cray linuxhardwaretricks I'm supposed to be a scientific person but I use intuition more than logic in making basic decisions. Seymour Cray intuitiondecisionscience Thank heaven for startups; without them we'd never have any advances. Seymour Cray heaven Parity is for farmers. Seymour Cray parityfarmers #3 pencils and quadrille pads.(when asked what CAD tools he used to design the Cray I supercomputer ) Seymour Cray designhumorouswitty 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 Cray notepadscomputertoday I just bought a Mac to help me design the next Cray. Seymour Cray designtechnologyscience Farmers buy a lot of computers. Seymour Cray farmerscomputer #3 pencils and quadrille pads. Seymour Cray padswittyfunny As long as we can make them smaller, we can make them faster. Seymour Cray smallerthemmakelong
