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. Ah! well a-day! what evil looks
Had I from old and young!
Instead of the cross, the Albatross
About my neck was hung.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

#4. I believe in rituals.

Charles Simonyi

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

Susan Lammers

#6. A little touch of chaos and danger makes a city sexy.

David Byrne

#7. He wanted to know what assurance we could give the American people that we aren't getting the tar licked out of us by the North Korean army. It has never happened to us. It won't happen this time.

Harry S. Truman

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

Charles Simonyi

#9. Well, I have learned nothing from my mistakes what the fuck is next?

M.F. Moonzajer

#10. You will not have to fight this battle. Take up your positions; stand firm and see the deliverance the LORD will give you, O Judah and Jerusalem. Do not be afraid; do not be discouraged. Go out to face them tomorrow, and the LORD will be with you.
2 Chronicles 20:17

Anonymous

#11. 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

#12. There is a big difference between fighting the cold war and fighting radical Islam. The rules have changed and we haven't.

John Le Carre

#13. 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