Seymour Cray Quotes

3 pencils and quadrille pads.(when asked what CAD tools he used to design the Cray I supercomputer )

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• My first published work was when I was 19, in 'Playgirl.' It was an odd experience but exciting.

  

  Karen Bender
  • Work
  • Experience
  • First

• To play four hands requires two people who have great affinity for each other.

  

  Daniel Barenboim
  • People
  • Great
  • Hands

• But I think the thing I'm proud of about the film is that there aren't many films - either independent films or mainstream Hollywood films - that are like this; it's of its own times, and it's the film Mike Nichols wanted to make.

  

  Patrick Marber
  • Think
  • Proud
  • Independent

• I came from a dance background, so that's what I did my whole teenage years. I was at the dance studio a lot. It just becomes your social scene and part of your life.

  

  Felicia Day
  • Life
  • Dance
  • Years

• I would rather not have contentious interviews. I'd rather do 30 minutes with Charlie Rose, laid back in a La-Z-Boy chair.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Boy
  • Rose
  • Back

• Memories are like stones, time and distance erode them like acid.

  

  Ugo Betti
  • Time
  • Memories
  • Distance

• In a fascist system, it's not the lies that count but the muddying. When citizens can't tell real news from fake, they give up their demands for accountability bit by bit.

  

  Naomi Wolf
  • Up
  • Real
  • Lies

• From the time I was 16 to really up until turning 21, the roles were really, really few and far between. I had people say that I just wasn't a good singer. They didn't know what to do with me; I would never fit in any markets. I almost quit acting altogether.

  

  Naya Rivera
  • People
  • Up
  • Time

• The number of parts that were required were just prohibitive.

  

  Jack Kilby
  • Just
  • Number
  • Parts

• I'd love to have kids, but not at the moment.

  

  Zara Phillips
  • Kids
  • Moment
  • Have

• Me.

  

  Hank Aaron

• I never write when I'm drunk. Why should one need aids? The Muse is a high-spirited girl who doesn't like to be brutally or coarsely wooed. And she doesn't like slavish devotion - then she lies.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • Why
  • She
  • High

• Error is the price we pay for progress.

  

  Alfred North Whitehead
  • Progress

• I won it, at least five million times. Men who were stronger, bigger and faster than I was could have done it, but they never picked up a pole, and never made the feeble effort to pick their legs off the ground and get over the bar.

  

  Bob Richards
  • Up
  • Men
  • Done

• There are times in show business when you work so much you think you will pop your cork, and then suddenly you can't find any work.

  

  Martha Reeves
  • Work
  • Business

• I listen to music because that's such a huge part of my process; not to sound super pretentious, but that's a big part of what helps me get in character.

  

  Kerris Dorsey
  • Music
  • Character

• Presidential elections and the voter experience have long been fraught for black people. From racist poll taxes to made-up literacy tests to the egregious rollback of voting rights over the past 50 years, American democracy has, at times, felt like a weird and failed social experiment.

  

  Patrisse Cullors
  • People
  • Up
  • Long

• As for most writers, language is vital for me: a writer's ability to render a fictional world - characters, landscape, emotions - into something original that alters or deepens my understanding of both literature and life.

  

  Dinaw Mengestu
  • Life
  • World
  • Understanding

• I don't care what word you use: my job is to design clothing that is not out there for us.

  

  Ashley Nell Tipton
  • Job
  • Design

• She was a thin woman in a mustard-yellow suit, with a yellowish complexion, short-cropped rusty red hair, and a stiff posture. She reminded Reynie of a giant walking pencil.

  

  Trenton Lee Stewart
  • Hair
  • Walking
  • Giants

• The smartest people I know have that extra edge. The risk is always there that you'll look terribly undignified and slobbering, and inside I cringe about that, but I should be more aggressive.

  

  Embeth Davidtz
  • People
  • Risk

• Ezekiel Boone's books, starting with 'The Hatching' series, are meant to be big, sprawling, smart, entertaining books that are fun above all else; the literary novels written under my real name, Alexi Zentner, are certainly a little more quiet.

  

  Alexi Zentner
  • Real
  • Fun
  • Smart

• 3 pencils and quadrille pads.(when asked what CAD tools he used to design the Cray I supercomputer )

  

  Seymour Cray
  • Design
  • Humorous
  • Witty