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Quotes by Danish Authors
"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."
"The best weapon of a dictatorship is secrecy, but the best weapon of a democracy should be the weapon of openness."
"I find languages that support just one programming paradigm constraining."
"So it's mainly a question of helping the Third World overcome the effects of global warming."
"Besides, I think that when one has been through a boarding school, especially then, you have some resistance, because it was both fine comradeship and a fairly hard training."
"You could say that when you introduce humour to your work, you also step back a little from it. You create a distance."
"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."
"It was a major dream come true at last. In many respects, Jerusalem is a very modern and important story about people in a period of transition, with all the unrest that permeates society on the eve of a new century. The big life issues are at stake."
"Not just in commerce but in the world of ideas too our age is putting on a veritable clearance sale. Everything can be had so dirt cheap that one begins to wonder whether in the end anyone will want to make a bid."
"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."
"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."
"More than forty years of Communist rule in Central and Eastern Europe resulted in an unhappy and artificial division of Europe. It is this dark chapter of European history that we now have the opportunity to close."
"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."
"The tyrant dies and his rule is over, the martyr dies and his rule begins."
"Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom."
"Patience is necessary, and one cannot reap immediately where one has sown."
"From the beginning, we were prepared, we know how we would shoot and cut the two versions."
"I had never done any serious acting before, but I decided that it was a chance that I should take."
"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 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."
"Among the delights of Summer were picnics to the woods."
"I think it's important that we all try to give something to this medium, instead of just thinking about what is the most efficient way of telling a story or making an audience stay in a cinema."
"One of my few shortcomings is that I can't predict the future."
"People buy a chair, and they don't really care who designed it."
"I would encourage nonproprietary standards for tools and libraries."
"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."
"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."
"I have no philosophy, my favourite thing is sitting in the studio."
"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."
"Thus, the standard library will serve as both a tool and as a teacher."
"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 fact that we're catching more fish per person than we've ever done before doesn't mean that there are not particular places where we've managed fisheries badly."
"The more I live, the more I think that humor is the saving sense."
"I did not know what it was to be happy for a whole day at a time, scarcely for an hour."
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