Jan Princen

Reader of Books, Drinker of Drinks, Eater of Eats & Doer of Deeds.

[Jan Princen @princenjan]

Yes! Yesterday was the launch of the Children's Book, Mag je taart op een hond gooien?, that my brother @nikoprincen and I created. It can be ordered here:
https://t.co/AzrX6LJ1g0
#kinderboek

[Jan Princen @princenjan]

“I have to push to my limitations in order to accept my limitations,”

https://t.co/o2jwzMzVgM

[Jan Princen @princenjan]

For both [the artist and the mathematician], he said, “it feels like you’re grabbing something that’s already there, rather than creating something in your mind.”

https://t.co/s5toyAyR84

[Jan Princen @princenjan]

“Truly, I travel in order to read. I cannot do one without the other. The weight of clothes in my gear is constraining, the weight of books liberating.”

⁃Kaplan, Adriatic

#reading #books #travel

[Sjonnie Barbarossa @nikoprincen]

Tonight in Berlin. Hope to see you there!

U124 - Urbanstrasse 124

[Jan Princen @princenjan]

“Writing is a concentrated form of thinking. I don’t know what I think about certain subjects, even today, until I sit down and try to write about them.”

https://t.co/eEM2CP2qBl

#writing #thinking

[Jan Princen @princenjan]

"Data, Benanti explains, is a map — not a copy — of reality."
https://t.co/ljIxFhB2KF
#data #reality

[Jan Princen @princenjan]

“Today victory would have been with the enemy, had they had a victor in command.”

- Caesar in Plutarch

#winning

[Jan Princen @princenjan]

“Too many people equate
activity with adding value.”

https://t.co/IJ8ey8xjxR

[Jan Princen @princenjan]

“They seemed to love freedom; it turns out they simply hated the master.”

⁃De Tocqueville - The ancien regime and the French revolution

#Freedom

[Motopp @Motopp1]

Mensen met de juiste motivatie verdienen de juiste kansen. Hiervoor werken wij nauw samen met de gemeente Amsterdam. Merijn Biesterveld ging met Motoppers Ali en Sarah in gesprek met de gemeente.

Lees het hier terug:
https://t.co/IYqbQ4Qdpt

#gemeenteamsterdam #motopp

[Jan Princen @princenjan]

“If you’ve ever worked with computers, you understand the disease - the delight in being able to see how much you can do.”

[Jan Princen @princenjan]

“The computer disease that anybody who works with computers knows about. It’s a very serious disease and it interferes completely with the work. The trouble with computers is you play with them. They are so wonderful.”

- Surely you’re joking, mr. Feynman

#computer #feynman

[Jan Princen @princenjan]

“attracted as they are by its abundance of eccentricity. “

https://t.co/8eTjnuWOrB

[Jan Princen @princenjan]

“And as soon as we got the door opened,” Mr. Ferlinghetti later remembered, “we couldn’t get it closed.”

https://t.co/qpJC4Ow33p

#bookstore

[Jan Princen @princenjan]

What do you miss when you focus mostly on what is new?

[Jan Princen @princenjan]

“If I have mastered any kind of art, it is the art of leaving things out.”

-Zweig

#art #Master

[Jan Princen @princenjan]

“[work] paid for, the most convincing of all proofs of merit.”

-Zweig, the world of yesterday

#proof #merit

[Jan Princen @princenjan]

“He wasn’t trying to emulate dance moves, he was dancing.”

McHammer on Vanilla Ice

https://t.co/VkdXyJl2eq

#Dancing

[Jan Princen @princenjan]

“Only those who could look forward with confidence to the future enjoyed the present with an easy mind.”

- Zweig, the world of yesterday

#future #confidence

[Jan Princen @princenjan]

“When it came to making concessions to reality, he didn't have that ability.”

https://t.co/KNRZDxCLMb

#reality