#3 pencils and quadrille pads.

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

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

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 )

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

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

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

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

Parity is for farmers.

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

Farmers buy a lot of computers.

Hope is a passion for the possible.

The doubt itself will not disappear as long as man does not overcome his isolation and as long as his place in the world has not become a meaningful one in terms of his human needs.

The future lies in designing and selling computers that people don't realize are computers at all.

Nothing is perfect. Life is messy. Relationships are complex. Outcomes are uncertain. People are irrational.

Surely it is not true blessedness to be free of sorrow while there is sorrow and sin in the world. Sorrow is a part of love and love does not seek to throw it off.

The secret of following God's will, I discovered, usually is wrapped up in rejecting the good for God's best.

The great pyramid is overrated. It's a bad design. The lounge is going to be huge, but the bedroom is going to be tiny.

My family are not sporty - they are all doctors or lawyers.

Whatever the truth is, I don’t see how it will help me get food on the table.

I think that the discovery of antimatter was perhaps the biggest jump of all the big jumps in physics in our century.