“There will always be people saying things can't be done. And history s...” — Boyan Slat Quote

“There will always be people saying things can't be done. And history shows that time and time again things 'couldn't be done' and they were done.”

“What I like best is sitting in a room together with really smart engineers thinking about a problem.”

“We absolutely need to clean up the plastic that's already in the ocean. It won't go away by itself. But we do also need to make sure that no more plastic enters the oceans in the first place. These things should go hand in hand.”

“I am quite obsessive by nature.”

“The entire brain of the organization is here. The construction drawings and data processing all takes place in Rotterdam.”

“There are already dozens of organizations working on trying to prevent plastic from going into the ocean, through advocacy, education, awareness, all great work, yet nobody was addressing the stock of existing pollution.”

“History is Philosophy teaching by example.”

“I know there's some kind of history to mountain music-like it came from Ireland or England or Scotland and we kept up the tradition.”

“A true history of human events would show that a far larger proportion of our acts are the result of sudden impulse and accident than of that reason of which we so much boast.”

“The greatest honor history can bestow is that of peacemaker.”

“My heart goes out to victims and survivors of the Hurricane Katrina tragedy and to their families. This disaster will go down in history books as one of the largest natural disasters in U.S. history.”

“It's extraordinary to me - you cannot name a presidential candidate in history who has singlehandedly, through bad trade deals, destroyed more American jobs and more American factories than Hillary Clinton. She did NAFTA, she did China's entry into the World Trade Organization, she did the South Korean 2012 deal - every single one of those.”