Charles Simonyi quotes

Charles Simonyi quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

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

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“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

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“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

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“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

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“So precious a talent as intellect never was given to be wrapt in a napkin and buried in the earth.”

Source : Sarah Grimke, Angelina Grimke (2015). “On Slavery and Abolitionism: Essays and Letters”, p.96, Penguin
“The most exciting business ideas fit on the back of an airplane napkin.”
“Dialogue is not just quotation. It is grimaces, pauses, adjustments of blouse buttons, doodles on a napkin, and crossings of legs”

Source : Jerome Stern (2011). “Making Shapely Fiction”, p.14, W. W. Norton & Company
“I want to go beyond the restrictions of language, religion and caste, and music is the only thing that allows me to do that.”
“I gravitate toward the larger worldview questions such as, Why are we here? What are we supposed to be doing? What does it mean to know another person? To love someone? Of course, those questions are sort of in the background as I'm playing with language in the foreground, but those are the informing questions.”

Source : "Cartographer of Word Galaxies". The Believer interview, logger.believermag.com. September 24, 2013.
“Gore speaks to America as if English is its second language; George W. speaks as if English is his second language.”
“Poetry is above all a concentration of the power of language, which is the power of our ultimate relationship to everything in the universe.”
“I don't know anything about computers.”
“The modern computer with all its various gadgets and wonderful electronic facilities now makes it possible to preserve and reinvigorate all the cultural richness of mankind.”
“The next major explosion is going to be when genetics and computers come together.”

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