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Quotes by Dutch Authors
"It's the generally accepted privilege of theologians to stretch the heavens, that is the Scriptures, like tanners with a hide."
"Ambition is the immoderate desire for power."
"People say it is part of the game. You win some, you lose some. But not for me."
"Every age yearns for a more beautiful world. The deeper the desperation and the depression about the confusing present, the more intense that yearning."
"A nail is driven out by another nail. Habit is overcome by habit."
"I should point out, however, that at first some difficulty was experienced in observing the phenomena predicted by the theory, owing to the extreme smallness of the variations in the period of oscillation."
"One of the most amazing locations I've ever been is the top of the volcano in Tanzania, Africa. It's an actual volcano where you really have this lava every day."
"Of course, relative citation frequencies are no measure of relative importance. Who has not aspired to write a paper so fundamental that very soon it is known to everyone and cited by no one?"
"The most disadvantageous peace is better than the most just war."
"In a previous life I wrote the software that controlled my physics experiments. That software had to deal with all kinds of possible failures in equipment. That is probably where I learned to rely on multiple safety nets inside and around my systems."
"When a train goes through a tunnel and it gets dark, you don't throw away the ticket and jump off. You sit still and trust the engineer."
"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."
"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."
"Whatsoever is contrary to nature is contrary to reason, and whatsoever is contrary to reason is absurd."
"Freedom is absolutely necessary for the progress in science and the liberal arts."
"None are more taken in by flattery than the proud, who wish to be the first and are not."
"The second fundamental feature of culture is that all culture has an element of striving."
"Happiness is a virtue, not its reward."
"Perfecting oneself is as much unlearning as it is learning."
"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."
"The poor peasant here hives under conditions quite different from those of Russia. Though often terrible, they are not as appalling as they were there."
"Don't compete with me: firstly, I have more experience, and secondly, I have chosen the weapons."
"Soccer is simple, but it is difficult to play simple."
"The more ignorant, reckless and thoughtless a doctor is, the higher his reputation soars even amongst powerful princes."
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