The Lurking Suspicion That Something Could Be

The Ability Of Discerning High Quality Unavoidably Implies The Ability Of Identifying Shortcomings.

Much Of The Excitement We Get Out Of Our Work Is That We Don't Really Know What We Are Doing.

When Building Sand Castles On The Beach, We Can Ignore The Waves But Should Watch The Tide.

Brainpower Is By Far Our Scarcest Resource.

When I Came Back From Munich, It Was September, And I Was Professor Of Mathematics At The Eindhoven University Of Technology. Later I Learned That I Had Been The Department's Third Choice, After Two Numerical Analysts Had Turned The Invitation Down; The Decision To Invite Me Had Not Been An Easy One, On The One Hand Because I Had Not Really Studied Mathematics, And On The Other Hand Because Of My Sandals, My Beard And My "arrogance" (whatever That May Be).