Engineering Quote by Cecil Balmond Download Open image “Knowing there is a structure, hidden or felt, to the random gives pleasure.” — Cecil Balmond ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.9 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Engineering Engineering inspirational Felt Giving Knowing Pleasure Structure
“Yet randomness remains stubbornly difficult to understand. The problem is that our brains aren’t wired to think about it. Instead, we are built to… — Ed Catmull Copy Share Image
“We may be fascinated by the temptations of random encounters. Still, randomness can upset us by the pertinacity of our habits, actuating warning signals… — Erik Pevernagie Copy Share Image
Shouldn't atheist have an equal obligation to explain pleasure in a world of randomness. Where does pleasure come from? — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Desire to know why, and how curiosity, which is a lust of the mind, that a perseverance of delight in the continued and indefatigable… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
Nature, even in the act of satisfying anticipation, often provides a surprise. — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
It has that thing - the imagination, and the feeling of happy excitement- I knew when I was a kid. — Walt Disney Copy Share Image
As the pleasure principle is unconstrained by a moral compass based on a respect for others, it is increasingly shaped by the need for… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
It is not in novelty but in habit that we find the greatest pleasure. — Raymond Radiguet Copy Share Image
The abstract has no emotional content... the abstract is more powerful the more abstract it is. — Cecil Balmond Copy Share Image
It appears that a simple rule, of something adhering to another similar idea, repeated, leads to stabilities. This seems to be a function of… — Cecil Balmond Copy Share Image
I love paper. A nice thick pile of it and a pencil, and I'm content. — Cecil Balmond Copy Share Image
The bones of my architecture are very much related to the structure, to the physical fact of how a building can stand up; it's… — Santiago Calatrava Copy Share Image
Design is not making beauty, beauty emerges from selection, affinities, integration, love. — Louis Kahn Copy Share Image
Batley and Spen has a high proportion of people working in manufacturing, and we can boast the full range of industries, including high-skilled, precision… — Jo Cox Copy Share Image
Design is a very personal thing. It's like art. Your personal choice plays a big role. — Gauri Khan Copy Share Image
Worship isn't destructive, Martin. I know that. I don't. I only know it's the core of his life. What else has he got? He… — Peter Shaffer Copy Share Image
Leave a cavity behind the [wall] facings, and on the inside build walls two feet thick, made of red dimension stone or burnt brick… — Marcus Vitruvius Pollio Copy Share Image
Our guiding principle was that design is neither an intellectual nor a material affair, but simply an integral part of the stuff of life,… — Walter Gropius Copy Share Image
Design certainly has a cosmetic, aesthetic aim. It always aims at making things beautiful. But relevance is just as important. I often say, 'If… — Yves Behar Copy Share Image
I think the ethics and morals of genetic engineering are very complicated. It intrigues me. — Roger Spottiswoode Copy Share Image
Some architects have a preconceived notion of what a building should be — Curtis W. Fentress Copy Share Image