Programmers Tell Quotes by Seymour Cray

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

— Seymour Cray

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…

— Seymour Cray

Farmers buy a lot of computers.

— Seymour Cray

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

— Seymour Cray

I talk to myself through the computer. I ask myself questions, leave things to be looked at again, things that you would do with…

— Seymour Cray

Parity is for farmers.

— Seymour Cray

#3 pencils and quadrille pads.

— Seymour Cray

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

— Seymour Cray

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

— Seymour Cray

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

— Seymour Cray

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

— Seymour Cray

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

— Seymour Cray