eugene@eos.UUCP (Eugene Miya) (10/21/88)
In article <5863@killer.DALLAS.TX.US> elg@killer.DALLAS.TX.US (Eric Green) writes: >Someone else on this newsgroup mentioned that Seymour Cray's secret to >a fast computer was to put as few gates as possible in critical paths. >Anybody got a reference for where Cray said that? I'm certain it's derived from Anonymous' (doesn't he or she say a lot?) long list of quotes. I have: "The fastest, cheapest and most reliable components of a computer are those that aren't there. Attributed to Gordon Bell while at Encore (now Ardent) Page 62, More Programming Pearls, by Jon Bentley, A-W, 1988. (collection of CACM articles.) Another similar quote is "Better is the enemy of good enough." 8-) Another gross generalization from --eugene miya, NASA Ames Research Center, eugene@aurora.arc.nasa.gov resident cynic at the Rock of Ages Home for Retired Hackers: "Mailers?! HA!", "If my mail does not reach you, please accept my apology." {uunet,hplabs,ncar,decwrl,allegra,tektronix}!ames!aurora!eugene "Send mail, avoid follow-ups. If enough, I'll summarize."
henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer) (10/23/88)
In article <1781@eos.UUCP> eugene@eos.UUCP (Eugene Miya) writes: >Another similar quote is "Better is the enemy of good enough." 8-) In a variant form ("The best is the enemy of the good"), this has been attributed to Sergei Gorshkov, the man who turned the Soviet Navy from a joke to the US Navy's biggest worry. -- The meek can have the Earth; | Henry Spencer at U of Toronto Zoology the rest of us have other plans.|uunet!attcan!utzoo!henry henry@zoo.toronto.edu