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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I like to see myself as a bridge builder, that is me building bridges between people, between races, between cultures, between politics, trying to find common ground.
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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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When I was writing about Gotham in 'Broken City,' I was writing about Chicago. I just substituted the names.
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Design is the Zeppo Marx of management disciplines - the one that everyone seems to forget.
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People prefer doing films. That is not the case with me. I don't do theatre because I have to but because it makes me feel alive. I enjoy the whole process of rehearsing, though repetition can make it tedious.
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I'm too nervous to eat before I go onstage, and I'll usually eat out after the performance or when I get home at midnight.
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3 pencils and quadrille pads.(when asked what CAD tools he used to design the Cray I supercomputer )
