Seymour Cray Quotes
If you were plowing a field, which would you rather use? Two strong oxen or 1024 chickens?
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Anybody depending on somebody else's gods is depending on a fox not to eat chickens.
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Actually, all I ever wanted to be was the best in my field.
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Tis true among fields and woods I sing, Aloof from cities--that my poor strains Were born, like the simple flowers you bring, In English meadows and English lanes.
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My definition of an expert in any field is a person who knows enough about what's really going on to be scared.
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If you don't actively and decidedly choose to be the best, you automatically default to the lower 80% in your field.
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Yes, I am positive that one of the great curatives of our evils, our maladies, social, moral, and intellectual, would be a return to the soil, a rehabilitation of the work of the fields.
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While cats can be infuriating, little old women in fur coats, they make me laugh. Of course, dogs, horses and my highly social chickens are dear to me, too.
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It's off the leg and into the left field of Doug Rader.
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For us the mountains had been a natural field of activity where, playing on the frontiers of life and death, we had found the freedom for which we were blindly groping and which was as necessary to us as bread.
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The wheat field has ...poetry; it is like a memory of something one has once seen. We can only make our pictures speak.
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The Internet has definitely opened doors and leveled the playing field for musicians.
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I looked at my father and looked at those dry fields [in Malawi]. It was the future I couldn't accept.
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Remember - you can't beam through a force field. So, don't try it.
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Up and down, up and down I will lead them up and down I am feared in field in town Goblin, lead them up and down
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Ah, what a warning for a thoughtless man, Could field or grove, could any spot of earth, Show to his eye an image of the pangs Which it hath witnessed,-render back an echo Of the sad steps by which it hath been trod!
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Farewell happy fields, Where joy forever dwells: Hail, horrors, hail.
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And God, the herdsman, goads them on behind.
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...even on the low ground of common sense I seemed to be called to be a missionary. Is the kingdom a harvest field? Then I thought it reasonable that I should seek to work where the work was most abundant and the workers fewest.
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A good poet will usually borrow from authors remote in time, or alien in language, or diverse in interest.
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It's a sad indication of where Washington has come, where policy differences almost necessarily become questions of integrity. I came to Washington in the late '70s, and people had the ability in the past to have intense policy differences but didn't feel the need to question the other person's character.
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One of the differences between now and then is that the idea of body image is a much bigger issue now. Back then, just being kind of heavy and barrel-chested passed for heroic. Now, you wouldn't dare to play a hero without a lot of dieting and various specialised abdomen machines. But that was one of the things which was interesting about it and I did want to portray because there's good and bad.
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Joy and sorrow are the light and shade of life; without light and shade no picture is clear.
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If you were plowing a field, which would you rather use? Two strong oxen or 1024 chickens?
