Quotes About Structure

Le regole son quelle.

Civilizations have always been pyramidal in structure. As one climbs toward the apex of the social edifice, there is increased leisure and increasing opportunity to pursue hapiness. As one climbs, one finds also fewer and fewer people to enjoy this more and more. Invariably, there is a preponderance of the dispossessed. And remember this, no matter how well off the bottom layers of the pyramid might be on an absolute scale, they are always dispossessed in comparison with the apex.

People are entirely too disbelieving of coincidence. They are far too ready to dismiss it and to build arcane structures of extremely rickety substance in order to avoid it. I, on the other hand, see coincidence everywhere as an inevitable consequence of the laws of probability, according to which having no unusual coincidence is far more unusual than any coincidence could possibly be.

Te los desordenó? —le preguntó Amanda, súbitamente interesada. —Los alineó en orden alfabético y ahora no puedo encontrar nada. Yo tengo mi propio orden.

The euro zone must strike for a better governance structure, and there is no alternative to that. Euro zone countries must either develop an exit mechanism for troubled members, or it should embrace a closer political union: an effective governance structure that is capable of enforcing rules.

The world is not to be put in order, the world is order incarnate. It is for us to put ourselves in unison with this order.

Architecture is inhabited sculpture.

Architecture begins when you place two bricks carefully together.

An arch never sleeps.

Architecture is space structured to serve man and to move him.

A house is a machine for living.

I call architecture 'petrified music'.

Architecture is frozen music.

What kind of society isn't structured on greed? The problem of social organization is how to set up an arrangement under which greed will do the least harm; capitalism is that kind of a system.

A schedule defends from chaos and whim. It is a net for catching days. It is a scaffolding on which a worker can stand and labor with both hands at sections of time.

A novel, in the end, is a container, a shape which you are trying to pour your story into.

To look at the cross-section of any plan of a big city is to look at something like the section of a fibrous tumor.

I find when I'm more awake, I tend to think more of the structure and movement of a tune, abrupt transitions, etc.; things becoming more composed.

All mathematics is is a language that is well tuned, finely honed, to describe patterns; be it patterns in a star, which has five points that are regularly arranged, be it patterns in numbers like 2, 4, 6, 8, 10 that follow very regular progression.

The way jazz works is that we take a theme, and then we write using the same structure, same chord changes, and then we can do different tunes.

When you put a book together and arrange it, there's a lot of anxiety and turmoil about what order the poems should be in.

The city is like a great house, and the house in its turn a small city.

A committee is organic rather than mechanical in its nature: it is not a structure but a plant. It takes root and grows, it flowers, wilts, and dies, scattering the seed from which other committees will bloom in their turn.

If you wanted to dissect the structure of living cells, genetic analysis was an extremely powerful method, so my interest turned to that.