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." -- Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology {allegra,ihnp4,linus,decvax}!utzoo!henry
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 -- Mike Lutz Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester NY UUCP: {allegra,seismo}!rochester!ritcv!mjl CSNET: mjl%rit@csnet-relay.ARPA