Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.

Steff is een typische vrouw.

Als ik nu ook al Leterme serieus moet nemen, dan weet ik het niet meer.

The ideas of economists and political philosophers, both when they are right and when they are wrong, are more powerful than is commonly understood. Indeed, the world is ruled by little else. Practical men, who believe themselves to be quite exempt from intellectual influences, are usually the slaves of some defunct economist. Madmen in authority, who hear voices in the air, are distilling their frenzy from some academic scribbler of a few years back.

Mathematics requires a small dose, not of genius, but of an imaginative freedom which, in a larger dose, would be insanity.