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From: dan@pyramid.UUCP (Danial Carl Sobotta)
Newsgroups: net.arch
Subject: Cmore Kray
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Date: Fri, 14-Mar-86 17:51:38 EST
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henry@utzoo.UUCP (Henry Spencer) states:

>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."

  I might add something else he said (don't know where I read it or if it's even
true):
          "Real Programmers write in assembly"
  (they don't eat quiche either!)

 Remember, this is the guy who designed the Cray 1 using only pencil and
paper!  He probably got fewer ulcers doing it that way (rather than using
the typical garbage software commonly found in most CAD systems!!)
-- 


  'Out of the inkwell comes Bozo the Clown ...'
 
DISCLAIMER:  These opinions are neither mine nor my C-compiler's
       sun!pyramid!dan