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Quotes by Danish Authors
"However, when Java is promoted as the sole programming language, its flaws and limitations become serious."
"From the beginning, we were prepared, we know how we would shoot and cut the two versions."
"I was mostly interested in it as a theatrical film. Personally, I am not so interested in television, simply because I don't watch television myself. I'm into movies."
"I've taken my knickers off. My friends told me my panty line was visible, so I went without."
"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."
"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."
"If one devalues rationality, the world tends to fall apart."
"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."
"Patience is necessary, and one cannot reap immediately where one has sown."
"But my doubt would not be overcome. Kierkegaard had declared that it was only to the consciousness of sin that Christianity was not horror or madness. For me it was sometimes both."
"The more I live, the more I think that humor is the saving sense."
"People buy a chair, and they don't really care who designed it."
"If anybody says he can think about quantum physics without getting giddy, that only shows he has not understood the first thing about them."
"The big difference is the size of the crew and the flexibility of shooting because of the size. I mean, it's crazy. So you can't improvise, you cannot suddenly do something that comes to mind, whereas in a small production you have much more flexibility."
"I've walked a lot in the mountains in Iceland. And as you come to a new valley, as you come to a new landscape, you have a certain view. If you stand still, the landscape doesn't necessarily tell you how big it is. It doesn't really tell you what you're looking at. The moment you start to move the mountain starts to move."
"I have no philosophy, my favourite thing is sitting in the studio."
"Among the delights of Summer were picnics to the woods."
"People understand me so poorly that they don't even understand my complaint about them not understanding me."
"That's the great thing about entering a convent: There are things that you simply can't do, so you don't have to worry about them."
"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."
"People commonly travel the world over to see rivers and mountains, new stars, garish birds, freak fish, grotesque breeds of human; they fall into an animal stupor that gapes at existence and they think they have seen something."
"Technology has advanced more in the last thirty years than in the previous two thousand. The exponential increase in advancement will only continue. Anthropological Commentary The opposite of a trivial truth is false; the opposite of a great truth is also true."
"If there was no Black Sabbath, I could still possibly be a morning newspaper delivery boy. No fun."
"On average, global warming is not going to harm the developing world."
"There are trivial truths and the great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false. The opposite of a great truth is also true."
"I find languages that support just one programming paradigm constraining."
"At the bottom of enmity between strangers lies indifference."
"You could say that when you introduce humour to your work, you also step back a little from it. You create a distance."
"I am going to be working on bathroom fittings for a company in the USA, and then I thought it was appropriate to simplify the fittings and, thus, lowering the cost."
"There are in most states one or two ministers of war, one of whom is the minister of naval affairs."
"With a painter or a sculptor, one cannot begin to alter his works, but an architect has to put up with anything, because he makes utility objects - the building is there to be used, and times change."
"Now it is quite clear to me that there are no solid spheres in the heavens, and those that have been devised by the authors to save the appearances, exist only in the imagination."
"Trouble is the common denominator of living. It is the great equalizer."
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