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 )

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.

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.

#3 pencils and quadrille pads.

He owe his wife a debt he couldn't hope to pay with any coin save one: open the cage and let the bird fly.

...there's a difference between knowledge and technology. Knowledge don't fail us.

Look I'm politically correct, I went to a great school, I was a good student, look, I'm a smart guy.

No matter what theory of the origin of government you adopt, if you follow it out to its legitimate conclusions it will bring you face to face with the moral law.

The satisfaction of producing a work of art is the thing of getting off on it on some level.

What is predestination? Answer: God is more powerful and wiser than we are, therefore he deals with us according to his pleasure.

The song can be a little bit more of the mystery and leave the whole thing open ended. But there's something really gratifying about saying exactly what you mean.

Hey, any time you're throwing bodies over board it is to save yourself.

For our white members, voting is something they have done for hundreds of years. But for us, it is not such a traumatic thing, because we have never participated in an election.

I learn something new every day.