Cities Quote by Ellen Ullman

Some cities have fallen into ruin and some are built upon ruins but others contain their own ruins while still growing.

— Jeffrey Eugenides

We make our buildings, and then our buildings make and shape us.

— Winston Churchill

We need better architecture and planning: more imaginatively exciting, more involving, more our own.

— Robin Boyd

“Ruins. Places built up by man, painstaking, sometimes over centuries. Layer upon layer of human experience, history, and art, represented in stone and wood…

— wildbow

We will build the city from scratch. It will be drone-friendly and a center for the development of robotics. We want to create something…

— Mohammad bin Salman

The goal of Computer Science is to build something that will last at least until we've finished building it.

— William C. Brown

There is no logic that can be superimposed on the city; people make it, and it is to them, not buildings, that we must…

— Jane Jacobs

I build computers.

— Sean Murray

What you spend years building, someone might destroy overnight. Build it anyway.

— Anonymous

The form a city assumes as it evolves over time owes more to large-scale works of civil engineering - what we now call infrastructure…

— Martin Filler

We have this condition where digital technology is becoming increasingly smaller and distributed in the environment. In a certain sense, this is the first…

— Carlo Ratti

All through organized history, if you wanted prosperity you had to have cities. Cities are places that attract new people with new ideas.

— Jane Jacobs