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Quotes by Dutch Authors
"The people are grown very wild and loose in their morals."
"It's always an enormous pressure when you do a sequel. The demands are so high, and it's expensive."
"The real big stars only keep this up for about seven years."
"He who allows oppression shares the crime."
"If we are to preserve culture we must continue to create it."
"The Postfix security model is based on keeping software simple and stupid."
"The ability of discerning high quality unavoidably implies the ability of identifying shortcomings."
"Miffy has changed quite a lot since the early books, although I never realised it at the time."
"The intellectual force of the West is still dominant, but other cultures are getting stronger. I expect that we will develop a new way of thinking in architecture and urban planning, and that less will be based on our models."
"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."
"Perfecting oneself is as much unlearning as it is learning."
"Only those who attempt the absurd will achieve the impossible. I think it's in my basement... let me go upstairs and check."
"The luxury of our position now is that we can almost assemble any team to address any issue."
"I always feel like I want to do my career my own way. I never follow anybody's path, what they've done."
"One bug in an SMTP server can open up the whole machine for intrusion."
"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."
"Why they vote for me is irrelevant, but if they do, they're in safe hands."
"If you have this reputation you can sit back and endure it, or you can try to do things with it."
"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."
"I'm very glad to have something to be passionate about. I can't imagine a life without passion."
"The more ignorant, reckless and thoughtless a doctor is, the higher his reputation soars even amongst powerful princes."
"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."
"What a ball from Frank. Frank and I go back years. He used to do that when I was at Ajax."
"I don't think an opera house is ever a place that can make you entirely happy."
"Reflection is a flower of the mind, giving out wholesome fragrance; but revelry is the same flower, when rank and running to seed."
"What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?"
"The repudiation of the primacy of understanding means the repudiation of the norms of judgment as well, and hence the abandonment of all ethical standards."
"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."
"Fame has also this great drawback, that if we pursue it, we must direct our lives so as to please the fancy of men."
"The areas of consensus shift unbelievably fast; the bubbles of certainty are constantly exploding."
"Systematic philosophical and practical anti-intellectualism such as we are witnessing appears to be something truly novel in the history of human culture."
"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."
"The rule of the game was never assume that anybody, however honorable, would be able to stand up under torture. If Mr. X, who knew where I was, was caught for some reason, I should move."
"There was a project at Lawrence Livermore National Labs where many years ago they went down this path for scripting and controlling very large numerical calculations."
"The susceptibility of the average modern to pictorial suggestion enables advertising to exploit his lessened power of judgment."
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