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The number of parallel programs I have embarked on is less than the number of deadlocks I have created. Ken Kennedy

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I have never written a program with pointers where I did not try to traverse a circular list. Ken Kennedy

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In life, everything is important.

Everything else is not.

Janusz Kowalik

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Parallelism decreases as maturity increases.

Parallelism decreases as flexibility increases.

H. T. Kung

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I want to build everything as simply as possible, since everything is complicated Dan Slotnick

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After floating point, no one ever thought again. Dan Slotnick

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Don't let that trouble you. I refuse to discuss that assumption. Dan Slotnick

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Existence is trivial from the finiteness of the universe. Dan Slotnick

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I don't know how to teach it to students, and I can't do it myself.

Maybe those two are related.

Dan Slotnick

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I took a vow 27 years ago never to do another divide. Dan Slotnick

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The good Lord made graduate students, and if He ever stops, we're dead. Dan Slotnick

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It would be strange to me if shared memory machines were the way to go. Geoffrey Fox

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You have to stand there with your wire-wrap gun before a programmer will take you seriously. Tom Knight

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Even if the machine is a flop, you will need a good programming environment for it. George Michael

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VAXes are the marijuana of the university crowd. George Michael

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This is like collecting statistics on undetected murders. Pete Stewart

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If we lose a data record, it's of no consequence. We have plenty more data. Pat Savage

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Don't worry about semantics. I'm dealing with abstract engineering concepts. Ed Fredkin

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You could have a hot computer, a warm computer, a cold computer, each running off the heat of the previous one. Ed Fredkin

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If God, having some kind of fit, threw the gearshift of time into reverse, the spoon would fly off the table. Ed Fredkin

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The only reason no one ever knew this before is because no one wanted to know this before. Ed Fredkin

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It is now crystal clear (to a very small number of people). Ed Fredkin

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This is sort of a terribly interesting idea. Ed Fredkin

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To become a physicist, you must sign in blood that you won't be upset by things that make no sense and can't be explained. Ed Fredkin

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When you widen the diameter of knowledge, you increase the periphery of ignorance. Elias Rowe

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A good idea is not necessarily a bright idea. Howard Resnikoff

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It never hurts to have a supporting argument for something people are already doing. Howard Resnikoff

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Testing is not a religion I have to believe in. Zvi Kedem

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This isn't yesterday's lecture. He's getting his arithmetic right. Quentin Stout