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Quotes by Dutch Authors
"Lack of documentation is becoming a problem for acceptance."
"Robert De Niro... It seemed like a pretty cool thing to do to put his name on my resume next."
"It is an unscrupulous intellect that does not pay to antiquity its due reverence."
"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."
"What is popularly called fame is nothing but an empty name and a legacy from paganism."
"Peace is not the absence of war, but a virtue based on strength of character."
"Will and intellect are one and the same thing."
"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."
"It is wisdom in prosperity, when all is as thou wouldn't have it, to fear and suspect the worst."
"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."
"What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?"
"I think there are a lot more relationship scenes in my movies that people tend to overlook. A lot of scenes really feel real and are about the characters."
"As of today, the Postfix mail transport agent has almost 50,000 lines of code, comments not included."
"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."
"The revolution in Russia was victorious with the help of the poor peasants. This should always be borne in mind here in Western Europe and all the world over. But the workers in Western Europe stand alone: this should never be forgotten in Russia."
"If we are to preserve culture we must continue to create it."
"Like all software, Qmail can survive only when it keeps up with changing requirements."
"Give light, and the darkness will disappear of itself."
"Nothing is as peevish and pedantic as men's judgments of one another."
"If you have this reputation you can sit back and endure it, or you can try to do things with it."
"If you're talking about Java in particular, Python is about the best fit you can get amongst all the other languages. Yet the funny thing is, from a language point of view, JavaScript has a lot in common with Python, but it is sort of a restricted subset."
"We live in an almost perfect stillness and work with incredible urgency."
"The areas of consensus shift unbelievably fast; the bubbles of certainty are constantly exploding."
"I visited the Gymnasium in The Hague and passed my final examination (in the sciences section) in 1943."
"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."
"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."
"Each building has to be beautiful, but cheap and fast, but it lasts forever. That is already an incredible battery of seemingly contradictory demands. So yes, I'm definitely perhaps contradictory person, but I operate in very contradictory times."
"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."
"I am sustained by the tranquility of an upright and loyal heart."
"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."
"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."
"Teaching to unsuspecting youngsters the effective use of formal methods is one of the joys of life because it is so extremely rewarding."
"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."
"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."
"Why they vote for me is irrelevant, but if they do, they're in safe hands."
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