Parity is for farmers.

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 )

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

Farmers buy a lot of computers.

#3 pencils and quadrille pads.

Great literature will insist upon its self-sufficiency in the face of the worthiest causes

The music video will die when we all go blind, and music will never die, because even when you can't hear it, you can feel it.

The busier you are, the more intentional you must be.

And there is good money to be made when things are bad.

Love must not suffocate but breathe on its own.

As we commemorate his birth each year in our holiday celebrations, we should remember that our joy in his first coming should prefigure the even greater joy we will feel at his Second Coming.

One foot in front of the other. Repeat as often as necessary to finish.

Don't be embarrassed by your achievements. Being an overarchiever is nothing despicable. It is only admirable. Never lower your standards.

The fear of death is indeed the pretence of wisdom, and not real wisdom, being the appearance of knowing the unknown.

Nothing is more dangerous than a dogmatic worldview - nothing more constraining, more blinding to innovation, more destructive of openness to novelty.