Simonyi Quotes & Sayings

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

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

I hope people don't get tired of looking at me. — Ana Beatriz Barros

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

I believe in rituals. — Charles Simonyi

When my mother died, I thought I'd drown in sorrow. But my grandmother said something very wise, and I've always held it close to my heart. She said that not even the sea is infinite, and neither is grief. — T. Frohock

To dwell on the things that depress or anger us does not help in overcoming them. One must knock them down alone. His — Walter Isaacson

I see you kneeling in church - stained only by colored windows — John Geddes

There was still a monster in my house, and, in a fragment of time that had, perhaps, been snipped out of reality, my father had pushed me down into the water of the bath and tried, perhaps, to drown me. I had run for miles through the dark. I had seen my father kissing and touching the thing that called itself Ursula Monkton. The dread had not left my soul. But there was a kitten on my pillow, and it was purring in my face and vibrating gently with every purr, and, very soon, I slept. X. — Neil Gaiman

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

Where do ideas come from? Ideas come from other ideas. — Ira Glass

Fossils have richer stories to tell - about the lub-dub of dinosaur life - than we have been willing to listen to. — Robert T. Bakker

It is not so much that I began to run, but that I continued. — Hal Higdon

Yachts are the closest a commoner can get to sovereignty. — Charles Simonyi

XML is not a language in the sense of a programming language any more than sketches on a napkin are a language. — Charles Simonyi

A picture doesn't bring someone to life. A picture is a death of the moment when the picture is taken. Whenever you look at a picture, time dies again. — Marisa Silver

maybe you just want her to play with your Lego parts, and tinker with your big blue balls? Just once?" I said. — Amelia Hutchins

I think President Obama views Israel as a problem that needs to be solved. — Elliott Abrams

We haven't had a good energy policy in this country for decades and we're trying to get one. — Paul Gillmor

It was all very well to drag humans to Hell once in a while, but any demon who made a habit of it had to expect to bear part of the cost. — Vicky Loebel

IT IS NOT ABOUT SYMPATHY OR LIKEABILITY, EITHER. EMPATHY IS ABOUT THE TRANSLATION OF FEELING. — Film Crit Hulk!