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Quotes by Dutch Authors
"Programming is one of the most difficult branches of applied mathematics; the poorer mathematicians had better remain pure mathematicians."
"It is an unscrupulous intellect that does not pay to antiquity its due reverence."
"We pray that the deceitful race - such hateful enemies and blasphemers of the name of Christ - be not allowed to further infect and trouble this new colony."
"When air conditioning, escalators, and advertising appeared, shopping expanded its scale, but also limited its spontaneity. And it became much more predictable, almost scientific. What had once been the most surprising became the most manipulated."
"My own perception of that is somewhat colored by where people ask my advice, which is still, of course, about changes to Python internals or at least standard libraries."
"Miffy has changed quite a lot since the early books, although I never realised it at the time."
"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."
"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 wisdom in prosperity, when all is as thou wouldn't have it, to fear and suspect the worst."
"Soccer is simple, but it is difficult to play simple."
"How would it be possible if salvation were ready to our hand, and could without great labor be found, that it should be by almost all men neglected? But all things excellent are as difficult as they are rare."
"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."
"Whatsoever is contrary to nature is contrary to reason, and whatsoever is contrary to reason is absurd."
"But I always think that the best way to know God is to love many things."
"It is my intention to proceed slowly with our trenches."
"Great eagerness in the pursuit of wealth, pleasure, or honor, cannot exist without sin."
"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."
"Revolution as an ideal concept always preserves the essential content of the original thought: sudden and lasting betterment."
"If we are to preserve culture we must continue to create it."
"Most of the pressure comes from myself, not from others. I don't need a manager or a pundit to put pressure on me. I do all that myself before others do it."
"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."
"Nowadays the rage for possession has got to such a pitch that there is nothing in the realm of nature, whether sacred or profane, out of which profit cannot be squeezed."
"Don't compete with me: firstly, I have more experience, and secondly, I have chosen the weapons."
"Why they vote for me is irrelevant, but if they do, they're in safe hands."
"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."
"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."
"The more ignorant, reckless and thoughtless a doctor is, the higher his reputation soars even amongst powerful princes."
"Moreover, photography has made it possible to fix these images and now provides us with a permanent record of each observed spectrum, which can be measured out at any time."
"We live in an almost perfect stillness and work with incredible urgency."
"As of today, the Postfix mail transport agent has almost 50,000 lines of code, comments not included."
"Freedom is absolutely necessary for the progress in science and the liberal arts."
"Nature, more of a stepmother than a mother in several ways, has sown a seed of evil in the hearts of mortals, especially in the more thoughtful men, which makes them dissatisfied with their own lot and envious of another s."
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