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Patterns Quotes by Christopher Alexander
- To work our way towards a shared language once again, we must first learn how to discover patterns which are deep, and capable of generating…
- The more living patterns there are in a place - a room, a building, or a town - the more it comes to life as…
- From a sequence of these individual patterns, whole buildings with the character of nature will form themselves within your thoughts, as easily as sentences.
- In short, no pattern is an isolated entity. Each pattern can exist in the world only to the extent that is supported by other patterns:…
- It is possible to make buildings by stringing together patterns, in a rather loose way. A building made like this, is an assembly of patterns.…
More Patterns Quotes
- Nature does not turn out her work according to a single pattern; she prides herself upon her power of variation... — Seneca the Younger
- But human beings fall easily into despair, and from the very beginning we invented stories that enabled us to place our lives… — Karen Armstrong
- What matters is to live in the present, live now, for every moment is now. It is your thoughts and acts of… — Sai Baba
- As soon as we find ourselves working at being indispensable, rigging up a pattern of vulnerability in our loved ones, we know… — Germaine Greer
- We sleep, but the loom of life never stops, and the pattern which was weaving when the sun went down is weaving… — Henry Ward Beecher
- Woman was given to man as an helpmeet. That complementary association is ideally portrayed in the eternal marriage of our first parents… — Ezra Taft Benson
- All forms of tampering with human beings, getting at them, shaping them against their will to your own pattern, all thought control… — Isaiah Berlin
- Theories are patterns without value. What counts is action. — Constantin Brancusi