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“A Seymour Cray Perspective”

“Seymour Cray: An Appreciation”

“The trouble with programmers is that you can never tell what a programmer is doing until it’s too late.”

“Microsoft: Perspectiva de Seymour Cray”

“I talk to myself through the computer. I ask myself questions, leave things to be looked at again, things that you would do with a notepad. It turns out today that it’s much better today to do with a personal computer rather than a notepad.”

“One of my guiding principles is don’t do anything that other people are doing. Always do something a little different if you can. The concept is that if you do it a little differently there is a greater potential for reward than if you the same thing that other people are doing. I think that this kind of goal for one’s work, having obviously the maximum risk, would have the maximum reward no matter what the field may be.”

Resonant Thoughts

"for every Farrakhan who riles and poisons black America, there are twenty white bigots who seek to take us into organized murder and mayhem."

— Carl Rowan

Journalism1925–2000

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"If I was not fighting against child labor, I don't know what else I could do. It was always in my heart, I could not live without that … It's really a kind of spiritual feeling which is difficult to e…"

— Kailash Satyarthi

Social Activism1954

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"The division of Philosopher and Poet is only apparent, and to the disadvantage of both. It is a sign of disease, and of a sickly constitution."

— Novalis

Literature1772–1801

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"It seems to me that a great secret of early education is not to overrate the powers of attention in children. If they go to a church for instance, where there are long sermons, I should let them have …"

— Samuel Palmer

Art1741–1813

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