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Quotes by Danish Authors
"Furniture manufacturing in plastics requires very costly machinery, which the Danish market is not big enough to justify. Or so they say. But show me a plastics manufacturer who dares to take on the experiment."
"Every great and deep difficulty bears in itself its own solution. It forces us to change our thinking in order to find it."
"The proud person always wants to do the right thing, the great thing. But because he wants to do it in his own strength, he is fighting not with man, but with God."
"Since boredom advances and boredom is the root of all evil, no wonder, then, that the world goes backwards, that evil spreads. This can be traced back to the very beginning of the world. The gods were bored; therefore they created human beings."
"This was all very new to me and I did not want to ruin his film! So we worked hard on that basis of confidence that is needed to collaborate comfortably."
"No, no, you're not thinking; you're just being logical."
"But inspiration? - That's when you come home from abroad and are asked: Well, have you found inspiration? - and fortunately you haven't. But the impressions sink in, of course, and may emerge later: None of us has invented the house; that was done many thousands of years ago."
"Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards."
"The file is a gzipped tar file. Your browser is playing tricks with you and trying to be smart."
"More than anything, there are more images in evil. Evil is based far more on the visual, whereas good has no good images at all."
"For many years I was engaged in journalism, writing articles and chronicles for the daily press without ever joining the staff of any newspaper."
"An expert is someone who knows some of the worst mistakes, which can be made, in a very narrow field."
"Look at a stone cutter hammering away at his rock, perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred-and-first blow it will split in two, and I know it was not the last blow that did it, but all that had gone before."
"I'm definitely more attracted to chaos than to order."
"I see it all perfectly; there are two possible situations - one can either do this or that. My honest opinion and my friendly advice is this: do it or do not do it - you will regret both."
"We talked a lot about The Best Intentions and how we could shoot certain scenes in different ways with slightly different bits of dialogue and information, so that later on, we could cut the piece more easily and it would still feel complete, even though it was shorter."
"I am very much aware of the visual side of things. I do a lot of photography. I often take Polaroids of things that strike me as visually interesting, just to remember them and perhaps use later."
"If one devalues rationality, the world tends to fall apart."
"However, when Java is promoted as the sole programming language, its flaws and limitations become serious."
"Clearly, I reject the view that there is one way that is right for everyone and for every problem."
"Since my earliest childhood a barb of sorrow has lodged in my heart. As long as it stays I am ironic if it is pulled out I shall die."
"What's the message in Metallica? There is no message, but if there was a message, it really should be look within yourself, don't listen to me, don't listen to James, don't listen to anybody, look within yourself for the answers."
"Prediction is very difficult, especially if it's about the future."
"It is so hard to believe because it is so hard to obey."
"The grounding in natural sciences which I obtained in the course of my medical studies, including preliminary examinations in botany, zoology, physics, and chemistry, was to become decisive in determining the trend of my literary work."
"Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question."
"During half a century of literary work, I have endeavoured to introduce the philosophy of evolution into the sphere of literature, and to inspire my readers to think in evolutionary terms."
"In addressing a task, one almost always has several possible options, sometimes only a few, and they may all be practical and functional. But they lack the aesthetic aspect that raises it to architecture."
"I find languages that support just one programming paradigm constraining."
"You could say that when you introduce humour to your work, you also step back a little from it. You create a distance."
"On the whole, the world was friendly. It chiefly depended on whether one were good or not."
"Among the delights of Summer were picnics to the woods."
"It is easy to study the rules of overloading and of templates without noticing that together they are one of the keys to elegant and efficient type-safe containers."
"I've taken my knickers off. My friends told me my panty line was visible, so I went without."
"Now, the downside to conservation is that so much is done for the public, which almost always mars the environment that one wanted to conserve."
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