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Quotes by Dutch Authors
"The more I think about it, the more I realize there is nothing more artistic that to love others."
"By a Carpenter mankind was made, and only by that Carpenter can mankind be remade."
"Greed probably figures in my intellectual life as well, as I attempt to absorb a massive amount of information with consequent mental indigestion."
"Women, can't live with them, can't live without them."
"The use of COBOL cripples the mind; its teaching should, therefore, be regarded as a criminal offense."
"It's always a Catch-22 situation. They hate you if you're the same, and they hate you if you're different."
"What difference is there, do you think, between those in Plato's cave who can only marvel at the shadows and images of various objects, provided they are content and don't know what they miss, and the philosopher who has emerged from the cave and sees the real things?"
"Every age yearns for a more beautiful world. The deeper the desperation and the depression about the confusing present, the more intense that yearning."
"Teaching to unsuspecting youngsters the effective use of formal methods is one of the joys of life because it is so extremely rewarding."
"Do not bury our glorious orthodoxy in the treacherous pit of a spurious conservatism."
"Escape from the architecture ghetto is one of the major drivers and has been from the very beginning."
"Don't compete with me: firstly, I have more experience, and secondly, I have chosen the weapons."
"When I get a little money I buy books; and if any is left I buy food and clothes."
"I have made a ceaseless effort not to ridicule, not to bewail, not to scorn human actions, but to understand them."
"People can inhabit anything. And they can be miserable in anything and ecstatic in anything. More and more I think that architecture has nothing to do with it. Of course, that's both liberating and alarming."
"But I always think that the best way to know God is to love many things."
"A good portion of speaking will consist in knowing how to lie."
"One of our theories is that one can offset this excessive compulsion toward the spectacular with a return to simplicity."
"Happiness is a virtue, not its reward."
"Influence is a very unpleasant subject and I deal with it in a maybe irresponsible way, which is to really ignore it. It would be a nightmare if we started to really think about it; it would tie our hands, it would tie everyone else's hands."
"The thing is that I have a really intense, almost compulsive need to record. But it doesn't end there, because what I record is somehow transformed into a creative thing. There is a continuity. Recording is the beginning of a conceptual production. I am somehow collapsing the two - recording and producing - into a single event."
"When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives means the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand."
"It's a weird city because the uglier the weather, the more beautiful the city. And the uglier the buildings, the more coherent the city."
"The lurking suspicion that something could be simplified is the world's richest source of rewarding challenges."
"The measure of a life, after all, is not its duration, but its donation."
"It's never been important to be a huge star or to have some breakout role. If you're the lead, you get a lot more screen time and you get a lot more chances to develop that character more thoroughly than you would if you do it in a little supporting part."
"By burning Luther's books you may rid your bookshelves of him, but you will not rid men's minds of him."
"He alone is free who lives with free consent under the entire guidance of reason."
"If you have this reputation you can sit back and endure it, or you can try to do things with it."
"Robert De Niro... It seemed like a pretty cool thing to do to put his name on my resume next."
"Speed is often confused with insight. When I start running earlier than the others, I appear faster."
"As of today, the Postfix mail transport agent has almost 50,000 lines of code, comments not included."
"Look at Iraq; look at Afghanistan, where at great personal physical risk people have gone to the polls and have rejected the appeal from Bin Laden and his allies to stay at home."
"Program testing can be used to show the presence of bugs, but never to show their absence!"
"Our society is the product of several great religious and philosophical traditions. The ideas of the Greeks and Romans, Christianity, Judaism, humanism and the Enlightenment have made us who we are."
"If one is master of one thing and understands one thing well, one has at the same time, insight into and understanding of many things."
"Now, it's my belief that Python is a lot easier than to teach to students programming and teach them C or C++ or Java at the same time because all the details of the languages are so much harder. Other scripting languages really don't work very well there either."
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