Seymour Cray Quotes

#1. Anyone can build a fast CPU. The trick is to build a fast system.

Seymour Cray

#2. 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

#3. And so, now, she runs. In her running, her mind leaves her.
And she can hear nothing but her heart, the blast making her deaf.
There is a great white silent empty in her running.
She runs.

Lidia Yuknavitch

#4. Farmers buy a lot of computers.

Seymour Cray

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

Seymour Cray

#6. #3 pencils and quadrille pads.(when asked what CAD tools he used to design the Cray I supercomputer )

Seymour Cray

#7. The trouble with programmers is that you can never tell what a programmer is doing until it's too late.

Seymour Cray

#8. From forty to fifty a man is at heart either a stoic or a satyr.

Arthur Wing Pinero

#9. You shouldn't try to play games with me because I'm not a player, I'm the coach."
~ Cane

Adriana Locke

#10. The defense mechanisms of The Imposter are: sarcasm, name-dropping, self-righteousness, the need to impress others and the need for others' approval.

Manning Brennan

#11. Getting fired is hard.

Alice Barrett

#12. It's so technical. It's nothing personal. You're not fighting really, you're missing each other by a half of foot at least, ideally more and you get a few knocks and bruises. But with the kissing, you do kiss someone. Its lips on lips.

Colin Farrell

#13. 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

#14. If you were plowing a field, which would you rather use? Two strong oxen or 1024 chickens?

Seymour Cray

#15. What until then seemed impossible to achieve has become a fact of life. We have won the right to association in trade unions independent from the authorities, founded and shaped by the working people themselves.

Lech Walesa

#16. Parity is for farmers.

Seymour Cray

#17. I always beat the sun up in the morning. It's the secret to why I'm double trouble.

Al Sharpton

#18. #3 pencils and quadrille pads.

Seymour Cray

#19. Supercomputer pioneer Seymour Cray used to deliberately hire for inexperience because it brought him people who "do not usually know what's supposed to be impossible.

Eric Schmidt

#20. As long as we can make them smaller, we can make them faster.

Seymour Cray

#21. I want to take some quite incredible photographs that have never been taken before ... pictures which are simple and complex at the same time, which will amaze and overwhelm people ... I must achieve this so that photography can begin to be considered a form of art.

Alexander Rodchenko

#22. The victor will never be asked if he told the truth.

Adolf Hitler

#23. For children are innocent and love justice, while most of us are wicked and naturally prefer mercy.

G.K. Chesterton

#24. I just bought a Mac to help me design the next Cray.

Seymour Cray

#25. My first priority is my children. If at any moment I put aside something that I want to do to be a better parent than that is more than okay for me.

Monica Denise Brown

#26. Clergy are men as well as other folks.

Henry Fielding

#27. Venice was and is full of lost places where people put up for sale the last worn bits of their souls, hoping no one will buy.

Ray Bradbury

#28. Thank heaven for startups; without them we'd never have any advances.

Seymour Cray