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

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

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.

#3 pencils and quadrille pads.

Alexander could transmit imagination as some other could transmit lust.

Business is as old as life. There is no living being that does not have a business.

I fell into a deep sleep tucked in that little cocoon, a deeper sleep than I might of had in years.Right up until someone kicked me and said "Gotcha!

A people... who are possessed of the spirit of commerce, who see and who will pursue their advantages may achieve almost anything.

Periods of wholesome laziness, after days of energetic effort, will wonderfully tone up the mind and body.

Ho! Tom Bombadil, Tom Bombadillo! By water, wood and hill, by reed and willow, By fire, sun and moon, harken now and hear us! Come, Tom Bombadil, for our need is near us!

I worked all through my 20's, all through my 30's, so I've been lucky to be working.

But I never plotted a master plan for following my dreams.

Love simply is. That is the testament of Athena or Sherine or Hagia Sofia - love is. No definitions. Love and don't ask too many questions. Just love.

We all live in a small unique world, that's why we need at least one sole common language.