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"Inventors and entrepreneurs of this versatility -- and impact on the world -- are rare. One recalls Edison, Alexander Graham Bell, Marconi, but then one has to grope for additional names. Seymour Cray belongs in the same class."

- Norris Parker Smith, in his tribute "Seymour Cray: A Personal Essay".

"No one in history in Seymour's field has accomplished the consistent successes that he recorded during his lifetime."

- Chuck Breckenridge, in his tribute to Seymour during the keynote session at Supercomputing '96.

"I viewed him as being the greatest computer builder that I knew of as demonstrated by his designs and their successors that operated at the highest performance for over 30 years."

- Gorden Bell, in his 1997 presentation "A Seymour Cray Perspective." Gordon was an very early employee of DEC and designer of the original PDP series of computers, and later oversaw the development of the VAX series of computers. Gordon and his wife Gwen are the original founders of the Computer History Museum, now based in Mountain View, CA.

"He is the Thomas Edison of the supercomputing industry."

- Larry Smarr, physicist and leader in scientific computing, supercomputer applications, and Internet infrastructure. Larry is currently the Institute Director of Calit2, and Principal Investigator on the NSF OptIPuter LambdaGrid project.

"Seymour Cray was a special kind of frontiers man with a single minded mission and the will to succeed. His world class work not only helped to shape the world, but was also an inspiration to many younger engineers."

- Chris Lazou, in his tribute to Seymour Cray. Chris is the author of Supercomputers and their Use, published by Oxford University Press.

"I always had the greatest admiration for Cray as a computer architect. He had a lot of good ideas, not just the 6600, but his earlier machines. He had progressive indexing and many other things that gave you high speed. I think he was a real computer man. He knew a lot about everything."

- John Cocke, in an interview with IEEE in 1999. John was the winner of the first Seymour Cray Award in 1999. John himself is a legendary computer architect who was involved in the IBM Stretch; the Advanced Computer System (ACS); and the 801, RS/6000, and PowerPC processors.