Denmark

🇩🇰Bjarne Stroustrup

Science

b. 1950

"An organisation that treats its programmers as morons will soon have programmers that are willing and able to act like morons only."

🇩🇰Nicolas_Steno

Science

1638–1686

"Beautiful is what we see, More Beautiful is what we know, most Beautiful by far is what we don't."

🇩🇰Lama Ole Nydahl

Education

Buddhism

1946–2007

"Buddha’s advice helps beings by showing how one may consciously become a source of happiness and love."

🇩🇰Margrethe Vestager

Politics

b. 1968

"Some of these platforms, they have the role both as player and referee, and how can that be fair? You would never accept a football match where the one team was also being the referee."

🇩🇰Heinrich Christian Friedrich Schumacher

Science

1757–1830

"Among Noah's sons was one who covered the shame of his father, but the Hegelians are still tearing away the cloak which time and oblivion had sympathetically thrown over the shame of their Master."