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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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Give us power, give us light To holdall love within our breast's small space.
— Philip Jose Farmer
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We need only view a Dissection of that large Mass, the Brain, to have ground to bewail our Ignorance...We admire...the Fibres of…
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I just don't think there are any rules to color. You have a small space with no windows? Put lamps in there,…
— David Bromstad
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If you live in a small space, you should do the things that make it feel luxurious.
— Emily Procter
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The bigness of the world is redemption. Despair compresses you into a small space, and a depression is literally a hollow in…
— Rebecca Solnit
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Life is a hurricane, and we board up to save what we can and bow low to the earth to crouch in…
— Jesmyn Ward
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A poem compresses much in a small space and adds music, thus heightening its meaning.
— Elwyn Brooks White
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A lot of the moves I make originate from futsal. It's played in a very small space, and the ball control is…
— Ronaldinho
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It is possible to make buildings by stringing together patterns, in a rather loose way. A building made like this, is an…
— Christopher Alexander
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An artist's studio should be a small space because small rooms discipline the mind and large ones distract it.
— Leonardo da Vinci
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At no other time has Nature concentrated such a wealth of valuable nourishment into such a small space as in the cocoa…
— Alexander von Humboldt
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In its beginnings, music was merely chamber music, meant to be listened to in a small space by a small audience.
— Gustav Mahler
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