Best 11 quotes of Seymour Cray on MyQuotes

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

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

Farmers buy a lot of computers.

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

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

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

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 )

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.

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.

Parity is for farmers.

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