Plasterk Minister Quotes & Sayings

We know that mathematicians care no more for logic than logicians for mathematics. The two eyes of science are mathematics and logic; the mathematical set puts out the logical eye, the logical set puts out the mathematical eye; each believing that it sees better with one eye than with two. Note that De Morgan, himself, only had sight with only one eye. — Augustus De Morgan

Widmerpool still represented to my mind a kind of embodiment of thankless labour and unsatisfied ambition. — Anthony Powell

You have to start knowing yourself so well that you begin to know other people. A piece of us is in every person we can ever meet. — John D. MacDonald

Think about this for a moment. Your self-image, your idea of who you are, is just that-an image. Does it really exist? If you are not your ego, then who are you? — Lyam Thomas Christopher

A fool and his words are soon parted — William Shakespeare

Imperialism as he [Kipling] sees it is a sort of forcible evangelising. — George Orwell

If present rates of improvement continue, however, we would expect the cruising range of electric cars, for example, to intersect with the average range demanded in the mainstream market by 2015, and electric vechicle acceleration to intersect with mainstream demands by 2020. — Clayton M Christensen

The more I love, the more I find opportunites to love and wonder. — Debasish Mridha

Let's carpe the hell out of this diem. — Alexandra Bracken

Lately, I can't shake the feeling that I've been living a dream for the last 10 years or so; I can't account for most of my 20s, and I have to continually remind myself that certain people are dead now and many of my friends have children. — Chris Ware

If you ever go to a music session, you'll notice that the musicians can sit down and start playing right away, and everyone knows what to do. Of course they're reading it, but the conductor can tweak little things, and you can take that back to directing motion pictures. — Clint Eastwood

It's personalities, it's conflict, it's all of these things that actually make performers interesting. — Simon Cowell

[O]ne of the mixed blessings of being twenty and twenty-one and even twenty-three is the conviction that nothing like this, all evidence to the contrary notwithstanding, has ever happened before. — Joan Didion

When I listened to public prayers in evangelical churches, I heard people telling God what to do, combined with thinly veiled hints on how others should behave. When — Philip Yancey