Areas Quote by Rem Koolhaas Download Open image “The areas of consensus shift unbelievably fast; the bubbles of certainty are constantly exploding.” — Rem Koolhaas ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.1 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Areas Bubbles Certainty Consensus Doubt Exploding
Speculation and the exploration of ideas beyond what we know with certainty are what lead to progress. — Lisa Randall Copy Share Image
At extremely high processing speeds we are able to find patterns of order in what other people would perceive as chaos. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
It is in the turmoil of chaos that we discover what, if anything, we are. — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
Ultimately a genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a molder of consensus. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There's this progress, incredible progress of technology, everything is figured out, everything is known, everything is systematic and under control, communication is going on,… — Michal Rovner Copy Share Image
The whole system is under tremendous strain. Although the increasing pace of change is essential for developing new solutions, it is also pushing society… — Franz Josef Radermacher Copy Share Image
True progress quietly and persistently moves along without notice. — Saint Francis de Sales Copy Share Image
It's a lot of random situations that combine in a certain volatile form and create a bigger-than- the-whole situation that nobody could have predicted. — Paul Kantner Copy Share Image
The quest for certainty in forecasting outcomes can be the enemy of progress. — Nate Silver Copy Share Image
“Our world is increasingly complex, often chaotic, and always fast-flowing. This makes forecasting something between tremendously difficult and actually impossible, with a strong shift… — Andrew McAfee Copy Share Image
That has been another interesting discovery: that basically a city [Lagos] could recover from a really deep, deep, deep pit. — Rem Koolhaas Copy Share Image
Manhattan has generated a shameless architecture that has been loved in direct proportion to its defiant lack of self-hatred, has been respected exactly to… — Rem Koolhaas Copy Share Image
In a script, you have to link various episodes together, you have to generate suspense and you have to assemble things - through editing,… — Rem Koolhaas Copy Share Image
The beauty of my profession [architecture] lies in its randomness and surprise. And don't think I can choose my projects. I have to build… — Rem Koolhaas Copy Share Image
Our office acts like a kind of educational establishment and we are very careful who we educate. — Rem Koolhaas Copy Share Image
We discovered a person in Lagos who had a fish stall, and within a single square metre she carried two children all the way… — Rem Koolhaas Copy Share Image
Nigeria [in 1990] was all rumour, an unbelievable amount of rumour - largely about crime and almost mythical manifestations of evil. — Rem Koolhaas Copy Share Image
Let's put it this way: One can be happy or unhappy in a building. But some buildings make us more depressed than others. — Rem Koolhaas Copy Share Image
Nigeria was a blank on the map - there weren't even any maps. The US State Department, everyone said don't go there. It was… — Rem Koolhaas Copy Share Image
The work in S, M, L, XL was almost suicidal. It required so much effort that our office almost went bankrupt. — Rem Koolhaas Copy Share Image
Manhattan has no choice but the skyward extrusion of the Grid itself; only the Skyscraper offers business the wide-open spaces of a man-made Wild… — Rem Koolhaas Copy Share Image
The very purpose for being in this body, for every one of us, is to live and rejoice in that virgin area, that untouched,… — Sri Sri Ravi Shankar Copy Share Image
I am somewhat influenced by the years that I've spent trying to actually get things done, whether it was reforming education in Arkansas or a survey and Legal Services Corporation board when President [Jimmy ]Carter appointed me and trying to get lawyers for poor people. I have worked in these areas. I know it's more than just a hope. You've… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share
The earliest language was body language and, since this language is the language of questions, if we limit the questions, and if we only… — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
This ball was so crowded that it took me - a trained professional journalist with vast experience in this area - forty five minutes… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
People don't want to believe that technology is broken. Pharmaceuticals, robotics, artificial intelligence, nanotechnology - all these areas where the progress has been a… — Peter Thiel Copy Share Image
It's absolutely fun to walk around and have people respect you. When Michael Jackson did Thriller, I was in the park one day, and… — Rick Ross Copy Share Image
Software will get to be somewhat more mature, ah, but it will never be as predictable as most areas of engineering. — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
If I were entering adulthood now instead of in the environment of fifty years ago, I would choose a career that kept me in… — Charles Lindbergh Copy Share Image
The discrepancy between what actually happened and the version of what happened provided by sources is an enormous gray area. — Edward Jay Epstein Copy Share Image
Louisville is a place with no labels. It’s not the South, it’s not Chicago, and you don’t think of it as you think of New York or LA. It has some Southern romanticism to it, but also a Northern progressivism, this weird urban island in the middle of the state of Kentucky that has always provided a fertile, often dark,… — Jim James Copy Share
It turns out that this part of the brain is one of the first areas that's attacked by Alzheimer's disease. So we can now… — John O'Keefe Copy Share Image
Engaging the city around us and ministering to its needs reveal to us the remaining bastions of sin in our lives, the areas we… — Matt Chandler Copy Share Image