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Quotes by Dutch Authors
"Nevertheless, if I have at times been able to make original contributions in the accelerator field, I cannot help feeling that to a certain extent my slightly amateur approach in physics, combined with much practical experience, was an asset."
"We're all complex human beings, and if some of that complexity shows through, I think it's advantageous for the movie."
"When shopping was still connected to the street it was also an intensification and articulation of the street. Now it has become utterly independent - contained, controlled, surveyed."
"In the kingdom of the blind, the one-eyed man is king."
"How can I be useful, of what service can I be? There is something inside me, what can it be?"
"As we advance in life it becomes more and more difficult, but in fighting the difficulties the inmost strength of the heart is developed."
"One and the same thing can at the same time be good, bad, and indifferent, e.g., music is good to the melancholy, bad to those who mourn, and neither good nor bad to the deaf."
"For peace is not mere absence of war, but is a virtue that springs from, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice."
"Love always brings difficulties, that is true, but the good side of it is that it gives energy."
"Poetry surrounds us everywhere, but putting it on paper is, alas, not so easy as looking at it."
"I think the audience would like to see movies that are stunning to watch. I really think they'd like to see spectacles."
"The susceptibility of the average modern to pictorial suggestion enables advertising to exploit his lessened power of judgment."
"Ultimately, freedom and democracy are stronger than fear and tyranny."
"Paintings have a life of their own that derives from the painter's soul."
"All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love."
"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."
"The second fundamental feature of culture is that all culture has an element of striving."
"We are creating a fabulous franchise with an incredible female action hero."
"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."
"But I don't sit down and think: this is meant for children."
"Whatsoever is, is in God, and without God nothing can be, or be conceived."
"The world is my country, science is my religion."
"I always liked serve-and-volley players and big athletes."
"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."
"Miffy has changed quite a lot since the early books, although I never realised it at the time."
"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."
"Like all software, Qmail can survive only when it keeps up with changing requirements."
"Mark Hammond is working in this area, with Windows Scripting Host. It is definitely an area where Python fits almost perfectly. That's quite independent from Java, actually."
"It is better to be high-spirited even though one makes more mistakes, than to be narrow-minded and all too prudent."
"Give light, and the darkness will disappear of itself."
"I'd say that my profession ends where architectural thinking ends - architectural thinking in terms of thinking about programs and organizational structure. These abstractions play a role in many other disciplines, and those disciplines are now defining their 'architectures' as well."
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