Seymour Cray Professions : Electrical engineer Born : September 28, 1925 Died : October 5, 1996 Browse All Authors Top 14 quotes by Seymour Cray If you were plowing a field, which would you rather use? Two strong oxen or 1024 chickens? Seymour Cray powerful strong witty The trouble with programmers is that you can never tell what a programmer is doing until it's too late. Seymour Cray coders technology too-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-work science thinking 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 apples humorous witty Anyone can build a fast CPU. The trick is to build a fast system. Seymour Cray linux hardware tricks I'm supposed to be a scientific person but I use intuition more than logic in making basic decisions. Seymour Cray intuition decision science Thank heaven for startups; without them we'd never have any advances. Seymour Cray heaven Parity is for farmers. Seymour Cray parity farmers #3 pencils and quadrille pads.(when asked what CAD tools he used to design the Cray I supercomputer ) Seymour Cray design humorous witty 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 notepads computer today I just bought a Mac to help me design the next Cray. Seymour Cray design technology science Farmers buy a lot of computers. Seymour Cray farmers computer #3 pencils and quadrille pads. Seymour Cray pads witty funny As long as we can make them smaller, we can make them faster. Seymour Cray smaller them make long Similar Authors Arthur E. Kennelly electrical-engineer Andy Bechtolsheim electrical-engineer Amar Bose electrical-engineer Irwin M. Jacobs electrical-engineer Dov Frohman electrical-engineer Harold Stephen Black electrical-engineer All Authors
