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

- Seymour Cray

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

- Seymour Cray

#3 pencils and quadrille pads.

- Seymour Cray

One of my guiding principles is don't do anything that other people are doing. Always do something a little different if you can. The concept is that…

- Seymour Cray

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

- Seymour Cray

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

- Seymour Cray

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

- Seymour Cray

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 des…

- Seymour Cray

Farmers buy a lot of computers.

- Seymour Cray