"Complexity is one of the great problems in……" — Christopher Alexander
"Complexity is one of the great problems in environmental design."
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33 Quotes by Christopher Alexander
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Nowadays, the process of growth and development almost never seems to manage to create this subtle balance between the importance…
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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…
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We are searching for some kind of harmony between two intangibles: a form which we have not yet designed and…
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To work our way towards a shared language once again, we must first learn how to discover patterns which are…
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To seek the timeless way we must first know the quality without a name. There is a central quality which…
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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…
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There is one timeless way of building. It is a thousand years old, and the same today as it has…
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From a sequence of these individual patterns, whole buildings with the character of nature will form themselves within your thoughts,…
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In an organic environment, every place is unique, and the different places also cooperate, with no parts left over, to…
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In short, no pattern is an isolated entity. Each pattern can exist in the world only to the extent that…
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More Complexity Quotes
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Exclusiveness in a garden is a mistake as great as it is in society.
— Alfred Austin
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Strategic thinkers were naturally rattled to find this outsider fooling around with their work. They had been thinking strategically when…
— Russell Baker
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There was a great complexity to my father. He was a devoted family man. But, in the same breath, he…
— Christian Bale
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Listen, I think movies serve many different purposes, from those movies that are frivolous and just an entertainment, to movies…
— Antonio Banderas
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Every democracy is constructed day-to-day. And the electoral process reduces and minimalizes every single aspect of human complexity. We're putting…
— Gael Garcia Bernal
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I think I'm drawn to characters with complexity or who are under duress in some way and have some conflict…
— Emily Blunt
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Dealing with complexity is an inefficient and unnecessary waste of time, attention and mental energy. There is never any justification…
— Edward de Bono
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When it kind of went to 'Street Fighter', where you had to push 13 buttons with all 13 of your…
— Nolan Bushnell
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We live in a rainbow of chaos.
— Paul Cezanne
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After having produced aquatic animals of all ranks and having caused extensive variations in them by the different environments provided…
— Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
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Literature is the human activity that make the fullest and most precise account of variousness, possibility, complexity, and difficulty.
— Lionel Trilling
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Coffee has ... expand[ed] humanity's working-day from twelve to a potential twenty-four hours. The tempo, the complexity, the tension of…
— Unknown Author
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