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Christopher Alexander has 33 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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Nowadays, the process of growth and development almost never seems to manage to create this subtle balance between the importance of the…
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Drawings help people to work out intricate relationships between parts.
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It is not possible to make great buildings, or great towns, beautiful places, places where you feel yourself, places where you feel…
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We are searching for some kind of harmony between two intangibles: a form which we have not yet designed and a context…
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To work our way towards a shared language once again, we must first learn how to discover patterns which are deep, and…
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To seek the timeless way we must first know the quality without a name. There is a central quality which is the…
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When you make something, cleaning it out of structural debris is one of the most vital things you do.
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The more living patterns there are in a place - a room, a building, or a town - the more it comes…
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There is one timeless way of building. It is a thousand years old, and the same today as it has ever been.…
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From a sequence of these individual patterns, whole buildings with the character of nature will form themselves within your thoughts, as easily…
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In an organic environment, every place is unique, and the different places also cooperate, with no parts left over, to create a…
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In short, no pattern is an isolated entity. Each pattern can exist in the world only to the extent that is supported…
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One principal reason why men are so often useless is that they neglect their own profession or calling, and divide and shift…
— Nathanael Emmons
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Im a shy person. I contradict my own profession, because Im an introvert in a very glamorous world.
— Deepika Padukone
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Also, it's good to have more than one profession, in case your own profession goes out of style. A Wall Street trader…
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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The men of the press, who despised their own profession, did not know why they were enjoying it today. One of them,…
— Ayn Rand
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One's dream is constantly evolving, rising and falling, changing course. This happens in every job, but because I have worked in comedy…
— Conan O'Brien
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Every industrious man, in every lawful calling, is a useful man. And one principal reason why men are so often useless is…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Images in the 20th century had a unique power where image became divorced from reality, and often more important than reality... Buildings…
— Christopher Alexander
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Nevertheless, in order to imbue civilization with sound principles and enliven it with the spirit of the gospel, it is not enough…
— Pope John XXIII
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