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Quotes by Dutch Authors
"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."
"One bug in an SMTP server can open up the whole machine for intrusion."
"The competent programmer is fully aware of the limited size of his own skull. He therefore approaches his task with full humility, and avoids clever tricks like the plague."
"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."
"Escape from the architecture ghetto is one of the major drivers and has been from the very beginning."
"Great abundance of riches cannot be gathered and kept by any man without sin."
"My reply is: the software has no known bugs, therefore it has not been updated."
"He alone is free who lives with free consent under the entire guidance of reason."
"However, writing software without defects is not sufficient. In my experience, it is at least as difficult to write software that is safe - that is, software that behaves reasonably under adverse conditions."
"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?"
"Sin cannot be conceived in a natural state, but only in a civil state, where it is decreed by common consent what is good or bad."
"When the principles that run against your deepest convictions begin to win the day, then the battle is your calling, and peace has become sin. You must at the price of dearest peace lay your convictions bare before friend and enemy with all the fire of your faith."
"I have made a ceaseless effort not to ridicule, not to bewail, not to scorn human actions, but to understand them."
"In my daily work, I work on very large, complex, distributed systems built out of many Python modules and packages. The focus is very similar to what you find, for example, in Java and, in general, in systems programming languages."
"It is not possible to live in this age if you don't have a sense of many contradictory forces."
"It was not simply out of a spirit of contradiction that I exposed a light source to magnetic forces. The idea came to me during an investigation of the effect discovered by Kerr on light reflected by magnetic mirrors."
"One of our theories is that one can offset this excessive compulsion toward the spectacular with a return to simplicity."
"By a Carpenter mankind was made, and only by that Carpenter can mankind be remade."
"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."
"Revolution as an ideal concept always preserves the essential content of the original thought: sudden and lasting betterment."
"Lack of documentation is becoming a problem for acceptance."
"But I always think that the best way to know God is to love many things."
"Nothing in the universe is contingent, but all things are conditioned to exist and operate in a particular manner by the necessity of the divine nature."
"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."
"I always liked serve-and-volley players and big athletes."
"The Postfix security model is based on keeping software simple and stupid."
"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."
"When I make a book, I make it for the child and not for the parent - no jokes in it for the parents!"
"At the time the Sendmail program had a very poor reputation with respect to security, with four root vulnerabilities per year for two successive years."
"The traditional mathematician recognizes and appreciates mathematical elegance when he sees it. I propose to go one step further, and to consider elegance an essential ingredient of mathematics: if it is clumsy, it is not mathematics."
"It is an unscrupulous intellect that does not pay to antiquity its due reverence."
"The areas of consensus shift unbelievably fast; the bubbles of certainty are constantly exploding."
"Mathematicians are like managers - they want improvement without change."
"I value the blood of one Christian more than that of a hundred Indians."
"It may easily come to pass that a vain man may become proud and imagine himself pleasing to all when he is in reality a universal nuisance."
"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."
"Programming is one of the most difficult branches of applied mathematics; the poorer mathematicians had better remain pure mathematicians."
"I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of established religion."
"We live in an almost perfect stillness and work with incredible urgency."
"It is my intention to proceed slowly with our trenches."
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