Anyone can build a fast CPU. The trick is to build a fast system.

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

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

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 )

Farmers buy a lot of computers.

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

Thank heaven for startups; without them we'd never have any advances.