"O'Reilly & Associates -- a competitor of ours at Fawcette -- has an evangelist, Simone Paddock, who is kicking ass in the industry."
-- Robert Scoble, Scobeleizer

"Simone is the most capable and pleasant company representative with whom I have had the good fortune to work. Any business that realizes its customers and vendors are the key to its success would do very well to keep her happy, and to let her work her magic. She will not disappoint."
-- chromatic, O'Reilly author and evangelist, camel wrangler, and programmer, http://snafu.wgz.org/chromatic/

"Simone Paddock has her stuff together. When I worked with her in her capacity as O'Reilly's evangelist, I found her tireless in communicating with evangelists, creative in contacting them and getting ideas from them, and adroit in communicating with them."
-- Tara Calishain, Internet Researcher and Owner of Researchbuzz.com

"It's hard to think about Simone without also thinking of the word 'indispensable'.
-- Emmie Lewis, About.com Guide to Perl

"I don't know if enough people tell you, but I immensely appreciate the work you are doing with the Evangelist program and without question I value the relationship with O'Reilly. But it goes without saying that I value the relationship with YOU. A company is the product of all the people in it."
-- Kerry Liles, Microsoft MVP & O'Reilly Evangelist

"i like oreilly because they have people like simone paddock who will go out of their way to give you a hand if your dogs eat your copy of 'Programming Web Services with XML/RPC'."
-- Eric C. Snowdeal, snowdeal.org

"Simone, my relationship with you and O'Reilly really hit home the importance of branding. I thank you for that."
-- Raven, ravenmatrix.com

"Big thanks to Cam for hooking me up with O'Reilly Online Evangelist Simone Paddock, and thanks to Simone for the copy of 'Developing Bioinformatics Computer Skills'."
-- John S. Anderson, genehack.org