Charles Petzold Quotes

The longtime standard for American TV was 525 lines from top to bottom of the image. As a practical matter, that was roughly equivalent to 350 thousand pixels - pretty crude, given that photos made with your iPhone boast five million pixels.

There can be no peace if the occupation continues.

The time must come when, great and pressing as change and betterment may be, they do not involve killing and hurting people.

I haven't had a chance to talk, but I'm confident we'll get a bill that I can live with if we don't.

You realize as a director that when you are cutting a film, you want to have alternatives. You need color and choices. You don't want four takes that are identical.

I'm wondering if there's a spell to make lightning flash in the background whenever I make an ominous resolution.

What about a compromise? I’ll kill them first, and if it turns out they were friendly, I’ll apologize.

My New Year's resolution was to stop saying 'You go, girl' to myself.

Colour itself is a degree of darkness.

There are many secrets; don’t try to resolve them all.

I've said all that I've had to say.

In the end, the work of diplomats continues even while others fight. So, it's not necessarily true that everyone needs to march.

I was determined to know beans.

For a very great many years, I asked this question: ‘To communicate or not to communicate?’ If one got himself in such thorough trouble by communication, then of course one should stop communicating. But this is not the case. If one gets himself into trouble by communicating, he should further communicate. More communication, not less, is the answer.

What I began by reading, I must finish by acting.

Ending is better than mending.

Once you'd resolved to go, there was nothing to it at all.

Conflict is a violation of harmony. If you participate in it, you're part of the problem, not the solution.

Talking is always a good idea. There's no harm in keeping lines of communication open.

Three quarters of the miseries and misunderstandings in the world would finish if people were to put on the shoes of their adversaries and understood their points of view

It matters little how one begins, provided that he be resolved to go on well, and to end well.

Without real nonviolence, there would be perfect anarchy.

Begging your pardon, sir....One population can't make peace with another by force.

I think violence begets violence. I don't think a way to solve any sort of conflict is with violence because nothing ever ends up solved, that way.

Divide each difficulty at hand into as many pieces as possible and as could be required to better solve them.