Seymour Cray
Seymour Cray
Seymour Roger Craywas an American electrical engineer and supercomputer architect who designed a series of computers that were the fastest in the world for decades, and founded Cray Research which built many of these machines. Called "the father of supercomputing," Cray has been credited with creating the supercomputer industry. Joel Birnbaum, then chief technology officer of Hewlett-Packard, said of him: "It seems impossible to exaggerate the effect he had on the industry; many of the things that high performance computers...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionEntrepreneur
Date of Birth28 September 1925
CityChippewa Falls, WI
CountryUnited States of America
The trouble with programmers is that you can never tell what a programmer is doing until it's too late.
Anyone can build a fast CPU. The trick is to build a fast system.
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 if you do it a little differently there is a greater potential for reward than if you the same thing that other people are doing. I think that this kind of goal for one's work, having obviously the maximum risk, would have the maximum reward no matter what the field may be.
I just bought a Mac to help me design the next Cray.
Farmers buy a lot of computers.
I'm supposed to be a scientific person but I use intuition more than logic in making basic decisions.
I talk to myself through the computer. I ask myself questions, leave things to be looked at again, things that you would do with a notepad. It turns out today that it’s much better today to do with a personal computer rather than a notepad.
Parity is for farmers.