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.
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To play four hands requires two people who have great affinity for each other.
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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.
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When computer systems cause errors, you can end up with The Dreaded NIGO - the 'not in good order' transaction.
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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.
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I would rather not have contentious interviews. I'd rather do 30 minutes with Charlie Rose, laid back in a La-Z-Boy chair.
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Memories are like stones, time and distance erode them like acid.
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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.
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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.
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The number of parts that were required were just prohibitive.
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I'd love to have kids, but not at the moment.
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Me.
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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.
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All action is vicarious faith.
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Error is the price we pay for progress.
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The Outsider has his proper place in the Order of Society, as the impractical dreamer.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Design must be functional, and functionality must be translated into visual aesthetics without any reliance on gimmicks that have to be explained.
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I don't believe in planning for things. I just want them to fall in place, unfold as they like. I never design things. I want films to choose me; I don't choose films.
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By 1970, the first stirrings of the revolt against Modernist orthodoxy in architecture had been felt, although it would be several years more until Postmodernism was widely accepted and made classical motifs permissible in high-style building design for the first time in decades.
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3 pencils and quadrille pads.(when asked what CAD tools he used to design the Cray I supercomputer )
