notable quotes

"If you were plowing a field, which would you rather use? Two strong oxen or 1024 chickens?"
- Seymour Cray (1925-1996), father of supercomputing

"#3 pencils and quadrille pads."
- Seymoure Cray (1925-1996) when asked what CAD tools he used to design the Cray I supercomputer; he also recommended using the back side of the pages so that the grid lines were not so dominant.


"Interesting - I use a Mac to help me design the next Cray."
- Seymoure Cray (1925-1996) when he was told that Apple Inc. had recently bought a Cray supercomputer to help them design the next Mac.

from the collection of prof gabrial robbins (http://www.cs.virginia.edu/~robins/quotes.html),

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I read somewhere that Cray once described himself as more of a plumber than a computer engineer - because of the extensive cooling systems needed for their supercomputers
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he's a guy i'd wunna meet. would be fun.



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hehe, yea, have him build my next comp.