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Quotes by Dutch Authors
"Women, can't live with them, can't live without them."
"I mentioned the non-competitive spirit explicitly, because these days, excellence is a fashionable concept. But excellence is a competitive notion, and that is not what we are heading for: we are heading for perfection."
"If you keep thinking about what you want to do or what you hope will happen, you don't do it, and it won't happen."
"Everybody hates a prodigy, detests an old head on young shoulders."
"But, then again, I had to stop because there was too much pain or too much trouble. After I retired I still had one more elbow surgery just to be able to do normal things."
"The use of COBOL cripples the mind; its teaching should, therefore, be regarded as a criminal offense."
"He who allows oppression shares the crime."
"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."
"Even the knowledge of my own fallibility cannot keep me from making mistakes. Only when I fall do I get up again."
"The greatest pride, or the greatest despondency, is the greatest ignorance of one's self."
"It's always an enormous pressure when you do a sequel. The demands are so high, and it's expensive."
"I always feel like I want to do my career my own way. I never follow anybody's path, what they've done."
"If you decide to design your own language, there are thousands of sort of amateur language designer pitfalls."
"When a 'Life of Brian' comes out with Muhammad in the lead role, directed by an Arab equivalent of Theo van Gogh, it will be a huge step forward."
"Any architectural project we do takes at least four or five years, so increasingly there is a discrepancy between the acceleration of culture and the continuing slowness of architecture."
"It is not the least anxiety that we have so little powder and lead on hand."
"The lurking suspicion that something could be simplified is the world's richest source of rewarding challenges."
"The nearer people approach old age the closer they return to a semblance of childhood, until the time comes for them to depart this life, again like children, neither tired of living nor aware of death."
"According to well-known electrodynamic laws, an electron moving in a magnetic field is acted upon by a force which runs perpendicular to the direction of motion of the electron and to the direction of the magnetic field, and whose magnitude is easily determined."
"On the basis of Lorentz's theory, if we limit ourselves to a single spectral line, it suffices to assume that each atom (or molecule) contains a single moving electron."
"The more I think about it, the more I realize there is nothing more artistic that to love others."
"In the country of the blind the one eyed man is king."
"Speed is often confused with insight. When I start running earlier than the others, I appear faster."
"It is practically impossible to teach good programming to students that have had a prior exposure to BASIC: as potential programmers they are mentally mutilated beyond hope of regeneration."
"To suffer without complaint is the only lesson we have to learn in this life."
"There was a project at Lawrence Livermore National Labs where many years ago they went down this path for scripting and controlling very large numerical calculations."
"In the absence of a magnetic field the period of all these oscillations is the same. But as soon as the electron is exposed to the effect of a magnetic field, its motion changes."
"The attack did not succeed as well as I had hoped, no small impediment having been the loss of my right leg."
"Reflection is a flower of the mind, giving out wholesome fragrance; but revelry is the same flower, when rank and running to seed."
"Program testing can be used to show the presence of bugs, but never to show their absence!"
"Do not bury our glorious orthodoxy in the treacherous pit of a spurious conservatism."
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