Charles Simonyi Quotes

#1. HAM radio is very inexpensive, it is nearly unlimited and free to use. The only limitation is that you can only talk for five minutes to any given person because the station gets out of range within that time.

Charles Simonyi

#2. XML is not a language in the sense of a programming language any more than sketches on a napkin are a language.

Charles Simonyi

#3. The others in the dorm thought I wanted to be a writer, because I was always alone with a book, but I had no such ambition. There was nothing I wanted to be.

Haruki Murakami

#4. Genius can do much, but even genius falls short of the actuality of a single human life.

Hamilton Wright Mabie

#5. I believe in rituals.

Charles Simonyi

#6. I would come back to public school for usually about half the year. It was actually better for me to be out of school a lot, because I was two years younger than everybody, which is a bad situation, socially.

Harry Shearer

#7. You did this."
"I didn't sire you."
"You. Did. This"
"I did this."
"Why?"
"Because I need you.

Elizabeth Hunter

#8. It turns out in some cases, if you do things backwards, problems that previously appeared complex suddenly become very simple.

Susan Lammers

#9. Men are of three different capacities: one understands intuitively; another understands so far as it is explained; and a third understands neither of himself nor by explanation. The first is excellent, the second, commendable, and the third, altogether useless.

Niccolo Machiavelli

#10. President Obama has decided to have the United Nations review the law of Arizona. You have got to be kidding! We're now going to have countries like Cuba, Libya and Uganda sitting in judgment on Arizona's laws? Enough is enough!

Russell Pearce

#11. Yachts are the closest a commoner can get to sovereignty.

Charles Simonyi

#12. Begin when you have the strength. You have it now; therefore the best time to begin is now.

Israelmore Ayivor

#13. Basically, most good science in space flight has to do with the behavior of the human body in space. That is where we are lacking info, and where info can only be obtained by flying in space.

Charles Simonyi

#14. It's not the work which kills people, it's the worry. It's not the revolution that destroys machinery it's the friction.

Henry Ward Beecher

#15. Programming today is the opposite of diamond mining. In diamond mining you dig up a lot of dirt to find a small bit of value. With programming you start with the value, the real intention, and bury it in a bunch of dirt.

Charles Simonyi