[net.arch] thoughts of chairman Seymour

henry@utzoo.UUCP (Henry Spencer) (03/13/86)

When I was down in Boston for Boskone last month, I visited the Computer
Museum.  (Well worth seeing, by the way.)  The "computer pioneer" exhibit
was on Seymour Cray.  Among various bits of interesting hardware, they had
a few quotes from him up on the wall.  I copied down the shorter ones:

	"There has never been a good product designed by a committee."

	"Keep a decade behind."

	"I am all for simplicity.  If it's very complicated I can't
	understand it."
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				Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
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mjl@ritcv.UUCP (Mike Lutz) (03/16/86)

Two other aphorisms I've heard attributed to Cray:

1. On why the CDC6000 series didn't have memory parity:

	"Parity is for farmers."

2. Remark upon leaving CDC to form his own company:

	"I'm tired of making slow machines."

If he didn't say these things, he should have.

Mike Lutz
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