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

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.

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.

It took more than science to make hope real.

The secret of politics? Make a good treaty with Russia.

I can resist everything but love.

Sometime the worst type of weapon in the world is love.

If you have ever prayed in the dawn you will ask yourself why you were so foolish as not to do it always: it is difficult to get into communion with God in the midst of the hurly-burly of the day.

I don't know all the reasons for these achievements, but I know that I love what I do and I have never wanted to rest on my laurels.

Everything here is edible; even I'm edible. But that, dear children, is cannibalism, and is in fact frowned upon in most societies.

The river , corrected the Rat, It's my world...What it hasn't got is not worth having.

All a designer can do is to anticipate a mood before people realize that they are bored. It is simply a matter of getting bored first

First of all, all writing includes some part of the self. The relationship of the self and the other exists in writing, whether autobiographical or novel. There is a self and an other.