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Quotes by Dutch Authors
"Mathematicians are like managers - they want improvement without change."
"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."
"If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past."
"What difference does it make to you what someone else becomes, or says, or does? You do not need to answer for others, only for yourself."
"Programming is one of the most difficult branches of applied mathematics; the poorer mathematicians had better remain pure mathematicians."
"Robert De Niro... It seemed like a pretty cool thing to do to put his name on my resume next."
"As of today, the Postfix mail transport agent has almost 50,000 lines of code, comments not included."
"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."
"Since then, I have worked with the group that commissioned and improved the ring and that is now preparing the construction of a second ring to increase the p stacking rate by an order of magnitude."
"I would warn you that I do not attribute to nature either beauty or deformity, order or confusion. Only in relation to our imagination can things be called beautiful or ugly, well-ordered or confused."
"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."
"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."
"By burning Luther's books you may rid your bookshelves of him, but you will not rid men's minds of him."
"It is wisdom in prosperity, when all is as thou wouldn't have it, to fear and suspect the worst."
"Speed is often confused with insight. When I start running earlier than the others, I appear faster."
"I live in New York. I don't really particularly want to move to LA."
"There are some people who live in a dream world, and there are some who face reality; and then there are those who turn one into the other."
"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."
"The entire world is my temple, and a very fine one too, if I'm not mistaken, and I'll never lack priests to serve it as long as there are men."
"A nail is driven out by another nail. Habit is overcome by habit."
"I have to be careful not to be too proud in life, because there is always room for improvement."
"I want to work with great directors. I want to work on good material with good actors. I've probably done 20 movies at this point and a lot of independents. It's been an incredible ride and I love it and I'm just going to keep going and doing what I'm doing."
"Now I believe I can hear the philosophers protesting that it can only be misery to live in folly, illusion, deception and ignorance, but it isn't -it's human."
"If we don't take effective measures now, the Netherlands could be torn between two extreme rights."
"The more light hearted I write about that, the better the message gets through."
"Great abundance of riches cannot be gathered and kept by any man without sin."
"I have a friend in New York who's a stylist and I went over to her place because she's got a lot of clothes. I basically ended up wearing most of it. So it's all stuff that I brought over."
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