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TNO - Netherlands Organization for Applied Scientific Research - A large contract research organization, provides a link within the innovation chain between fundamental research as a source of knowledge. Provides service and product information on many subjects and market areas.
IHE Delft - International institute for infrastructural, hydraulic and environmental engineering. Offers details on postgraduate programs, institution capacity building, research and development, policy development.
WL Delft Hydraulics - Independent consulting and research institute, provides information on water-related issues like flood management and river engineering.
The International Institute for the Urban Environment - Promotes sustainability as a major consideration in urban development.
Lenntech - Designs water, air and odour treatment systems. Features an overview of technologies and documents, FAQs and industry standards.
Delft Solids Solutions - Testing laboratory for materials characterization with special emphasis on surface area, porosity and particle size of solids and sprays. Overview of techniques and a analysis request form.
CE - Independent research and consultancy organization specializing in developing innovative and cutting-edge solutions to environmental problems. Offers a profile, job vacancies and publications.
Department of Hydroinformatics and Knowledge Management (HIKM) - International Institute for Infrastructural, Hydraulic and Environmental Engineering. Offers courses for professionals, engineers, scientists and consultants working in the water sector in developing countries and countries in transition. Description of courses and degrees.
Cap-Net - A United Nations Development Program (UNDP) project that provides education and training for capacity building in integrated water resources management.
"Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Walk beside me and just be my friend." (Albert Camus) I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to. -- Elvis Presley Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better. What if they are a little course, and you may get your coat soiled or torn? Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called 'Ego'. - Friedrich Nietzsche Conversation, fastidious Goddess, loves blood better than brick, and feasts most subtly on the human will. -- Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway Science and Environment Anything too stupid to be said, is sung. -- Voltaire Marriage is a trip between Niagara Falls and Reno. I do not see the EEC as a great love affair. It is more like nine desperate middle-ages couples with failing marriages meeting at a Brussels hotel for a group grope. -- Tynan Science and Environment If your professor wrote it, it's as near to the truth as you ever need to get. -- John Watson, University of Canterbury If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble. -- Elbert Hubbard Love is blind -- marriage is the eye-opener. -- Pauline Thomason Love: An obsessive delusion that is cured by marriage. "A conservative is a man who sits and thinks, mostly sits." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) Science and Environment If you talk to God, you are praying; if God talks to you, you have schizophrenia. -- Thomas Szasz "Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." (John Quincy Adams) "I don't think it's the nature of any man to be monogamous. Men are propelled by genetically ordained impulses over which they have no control to distribute their seed." (Marlon Brando) Science and Environment In a cat's eyes, all things belong to cats. -- English Proverb Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end. -- Igor Stravinsky "Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger." (Franklin P. Jones) The open-minded see the truth in different things: the narrow-minded see only the differences. -- Author Unknown The great tragedy of science, the slaying of a beautiful theory by an ugly fact. -- Thomas Henry Huxley Science and Environment There's a fine line between fishing and standing on the shore like an idiot. -- Steven Wright Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive. -- Anaïs Nin Victory belongs to the most persevering. -- Napoleon Bonaparte Science and Environment "Well begun is half done." (Aristotle) Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife. -- PJ O'Rourke Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness. -- Erica Jong Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that he sometimes has to eat them. -- Adlai Stevenson Why yes -- a bulletproof vest. -- James Rodges, murderer, on his final request before the firing squad Science and Environment "Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn; my God, do you learn!" (Clive Staples Lewis) "I am the lizard king. I can do anything." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) A good marriage is like a casserole, only those responsible for it really know what goes in it. -- Anonymous Science and Environment Jealousy is the only vice that gives no pleasure. -- Anonymous Sleep is an excellent way of listening to an opera. - James Stephens I had some words with my wife, and she had some paragraphs with me. It is not because it is difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are difficult. -- Lucius Anneaus Seneca This search for what you want is like tracking something that doesn't want to be tracked. It takes time to get a dance right, to create something memorable. -- Fred Astaire Science and Environment You got to be careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there. -- Yogi Berra Ne'er take a wife till thou hast a house (and a fire) to put her in. -- Benjamin Franklin As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy. -- Abraham Lincoln Science and Environment One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important. -- Bertrand Russell I just need enough to tide me over until I need more. -- Bill Hoest Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame. -- Laurence J. Peter Do or do not. There is no try. -- Yoda, character in the movie The Empire Strikes Back Whining is not only graceless, but can be dangerous. It can alert a brute that a victim is in the neighborhood. -- Maya Angelou Science and Environment Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street. - Elbert Hubbard "Be the change that you want to see in the world." (Mohandas Gandhi) "Goodwill is the only asset that competition cannot undersell or destroy." (Mrshall Field, businessman and philanthropist) Science and Environment I'm like old wine. They don't bring me out very often, but I'm well preserved. -- Rose Kennedy, (1890-1995) family matriarch, on her 100th birthday, 1991 "When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory." (Friedrich Wilhelm Ni Man is a natural polygamist. He always has one woman leading him by the nose and another hanging on to his coattails. -- H. L. Mencken "I like boring things." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) I couldn't remember when I had been so disappointed. Except perhaps the time I found out that M&Ms really do melt in your hand... -- Peter Oakley Science and Environment Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart and his friends can only read the title. -- Virginia Woolf I know nothing about sex, because I was always married. -- Zsa Zsa Gabor Military justice is to justice what military music is to music. -- George Clemenceau Science and Environment "Crime like death is not confined to the old and withered alone. The youngest and fairest are too often its chosen victims." (Charles Dickens, 1812-70, Oliver Twist) "I'll tell you something: Luxury disgusts me." (Giorgio Armani) If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance. - George Bernard Shaw Learn to laugh at your troubles and you'll never run out of things to laugh at. -- Lyn Karol Is there life before death? -- Belfast Graffito Science and Environment In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite. -- Paul Dirac Man is the best computer we can put aboard a spacecraft...and the only one that can be mass produced with unskilled labor. -- Wernher von Braun I'm proud to be paying taxes in the United States. The only thing is - I could be just as proud for half the money. -- Arthur Godfrey Science and Environment A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems. - Paul Erdos Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself. -- William Faulkner Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon. -- Susan Ertz You can pay attention to the fact, in which case you'll probably become a mathematician, or you can ignore it, in which case you'll probably become a physicist. -- Len Evans, professor, Northwestern Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parent, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers. -- Socrates Science and Environment Call on God, but row away from the rocks. -- Indian proverb There are those who look at things the way they are, and ask why... I dream of things that never were, and ask why not? -- Robert Francis Kennedy Disclaimer: Even my wife doesn't agree with everything I say, and she loves me dearly. My employers don't love me nearly as much as she does. Draw your own conclusions. Science and Environment "There is no sin except stupidity." (Oscar Wilde) I know a dead parrot when I see one, and I'm looking at one right now.... This is an ex-parrot. -- John Cleese, Monty Python, British comedy television show "Goodwill is the only asset that competition cannot undersell or destroy." (Mrshall Field, businessman and philanthropist) The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat. -- Lily Tomlin "Conscience and cowardice are really the same things. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm. That is all." (Oscar Wilde) Science and Environment The covers of this book are too far apart. -- Ambrose Bierce A university professor set an examination question in which he asked what is the difference between ignorance and apathy. The professor had to give an A+ to a student who answered: I don't know and Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife. -- P. J. O'Rourke Science and Environment Fighting is essentially a masculine idea; a woman's weapon is her tongue. -- Hermione Gingold Integrity is what we do, what we say, and what we say we do. --Don Galer Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage. -- Jean Anouilh The cynics are right nine times out of ten. - Henry Louis Mencken Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense. -- Thomas Arnold Bennet Science and Environment Many a man that could rule a hundherd millyon sthrangers with an ir'n hand is careful to take off his shoes in the front hallway whin he comes home late at night. -- Finley Peter Dunne, Mr. Dooley O After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music. -- Aldous Huxley We got to roll with the punches, play all of our hunches, make the best of whatever comes your way. 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