Of course I knew disco and dub from years before but I never heard such a radical new sound like house. It blew my mind!

In nightlife you can become a star, while in the daytime you can just be a nobody.

For me nightlife is like everyday life's mirror.

Amsterdam is not Holland. It is a city that attracts people from all over Holland. And lots of international tourists and party people.

A scene can be created when people are coming together. Either to shop or to hang out.

Sometimes I happen to be the right guy in the right spot at the right moment.

I don't like cliques. I used to go out a lot in London with friends. And London can be very cliquey. I mean if you don't belong to one set you don't go to a particular party.

Dance music is one of the biggest export products in the Dutch economy these days.

If you can make something genuine, then the ground is fertile for introducing something new. And that happened a few times in my life where I could sow the seeds and see something grow out of it.

That's the main thing. People have to feel it's real. If they feel there's something commercial or some fake thing behind it, then the feeling is definitely different.

That has always been my biggest ambition. To bring people together. To achieve a family spirit. Because then, you can actually do anything, because people are open to what they feel is real.

If there is no case to take care of, then you will take care to create a case to take care of. Otherwise your system becomes useless.

Religions, which condemn the pleasures of sense, drive men to seek the pleasures of power. Throughout history power has been the vice of the ascetic.

Although unions may be good for a worker, singular, they are not always good for workers, plural. Especially when it comes to finding a job.

Aristocracy is that form of government in which education and discipline are qualifications for suffrage and office holding.

What we have to stop and think about is that we have weakened ourselves militarily to such an extent that if affects all of our military policies.

Resolve to do the things you find to be difficult. That's what confident people do. They tackle those things that are scary and they get addicted to doing it.

Many of the snarly bad-tempered teachers whom we remember with hatred were really nice people soured by years of anxiety and penny-pinching.

Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it.

Nobody remembers second place.

In one word he told me the secret of success in mathematics: plagiarize; only be sure always to call it . . . research.