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 )

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

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.

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 )

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