If you were plowing a field, which would you rather use? Two strong oxen or 1024 chickens?

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

If you were plowing a field, which would you rather use? Two strong oxen or 1024 chickens?

Anyone can build a fast CPU. The trick is to build a fast system.

I just bought a Mac to help me design the next Cray.

As long as we can make them smaller, we can make them faster.

Parity is for farmers.

Elephants are highly emotional. Whatever they are feeling, they let it out immediately, and the histrionics are over and forgotten in a moment, lasting no longer than the cloud formations that are constantly coming apart and re-forming overhead. There is no guile in pachyderms.

We've got a long career ahead of us and it's going to be great. Trust me.

Journeys, like artists, are born and not made. A thousand differing circumstances contribute to them, few of them willed or determined by the will-whatever we may think.

When I was young, an eccentric uncle decided to teach me how to lie. Not, he explained, because he wanted me to lie, but because he thought I should know how it's done so I would recognise when I was being lied to.

I really enjoyed my degree, for me it was the best course you can do. To be able to study the brain and nervous system and the mind with a scientific approach is just incredible! Its philosophical, psychological and biological, three very interesting areas to me.

We want to make sure we get living astronauts to the surface of Mars.

One of the ways that you reveal character is by getting a character into a situation and seeing what they do.

I wasn't a one-on-one type of guy.

I can't stand it when men are snarky.

There is one crucial rule that must be followed in all creative meetings. Never speak first. At least at the start, your job is to shut up.

The human spirit is stronger than anything that can happen to it.

Your belief system tends to be a function of how you were raised. Being raised in the Midwest and in a relatively conservative household, my views were shaped by my upbringing, by my Christian faith.

The pressure, the heat, the almost impossibly fast pace at which you need work - this is the reality of working in the culinary industry. This is what professional chefs do night after night.

Im not afraid of storms for Im learning to sail my ship.

You win some, you lose some

I wanted to remain a bachelor from the beginning, but I got married thrice, and I don't know why I did it. I think it's not easy to live with me because of my impatience and busy schedules. Sometimes my mother is unhappy about a few decisions I have taken, but it is completely personal, and I don't want to make it public.

I believe you can make forces of good and evil work for you, to get what you want.

Authority figures are so irritating. Because they always tell you to do things for reasons that aren't very good. That sums up what authority is about for me.

Popularity is very inconsistent. Sometimes it's there, sometimes it's not. It usually just comes in waves.

I do believe anybody manufacturing products for healthcare cannot regard it truly as a 100 per cent business: it is business plus a humanitarian approach to society because you are saving lives. You are playing with people's lives.

What is music about? You can't listen to one era, one composer, and know what music is about.

Well, I don't know how they define that. But they have this Texas blues thing blown kinda out of proportion. I am a Long John Hunter blues, before and after, that's what I am.

I am the despair of my accountant; I am the plastic bags of receipts.

Its fascinating how much of our sense of attractiveness and feminine identity is bound up in our hair.