Charles Simonyi famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

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