Quotes About Structure

It was an ancient English church of that school of architecture known to scholars as A Big Pile of Rocks.

Topology is destiny

The question, as always, is whether the organizing principle is added to the gross matter to animate it, as yeast is thrown into beer, or inheres in the relationships among the parts themselves.

Next was a castle divided into many small rooms, with a system for passing messages between rooms through a pneumatic tube. In each room was a group of people who responded to the messages by following certain rules laid out in books, which usually entailed sending more messages to other rooms. After

They've made this choice based not on a moral structure or spiritual revelation that some other being or group has brought forth, but, rather, on a simple observation of what is so, and what works.

For ordinary household gravity, Newton's law works just fine. It got us to the Moon and returned us safely to Earth in 1969. For black holes and the large-scale structure of the universe, we need general relativity.

Flynn looked back over the Cathedral and glanced at the blueprints. This building was shaped like a cross.

Technologies come and go. The world remains a world of squares and towers.

the dichotomy between network and hierarchy is an ancient idea.

rigid structures of a hierarchical order can disintegrate with astounding rapidity.

the financial system is so genuinely complex and so many of the relationships within it are non-linear, even chaotic.

Successful movements also need an organisational model that allows them to keep growing.

I see music as fluid architecture.

I call architecture frozen music.

A lot of music is mathematics. It's balance.

Our musical alphabet is poor and illogical.

Almost all the things you can do online can be enhanced by the social structure of MySpace.

Writing a mystery is more difficult than other kinds of books because a mystery has a certain framework that must be superimposed over the story.

Crime novels have a clear beginning, middle, and end: a mystery, its investigation, and its resolution. The reader expects events to play out logically and efficiently, and these expectations force the writer to spend a good deal of time working on macrostructure rather than prettifying individual sentences.

The writing is only ever the attractive thing about a part. And also if all the elements within the writing come together - the character and the structure and the narrative - if they are all there then you become excited.

These days we're all hyper-aware of the canonical way in which stories are supposed to play out - people are taught all about three-act scripting and where to put the reversal and all of that - and I think we can do more interesting narratives.

I think what African football needs is better organization, better structure, and I think, after that, we'll help the players to be more professional when they're coming to play for their national team.

In nature, there is no separation between design, engineering, and fabrication; the bone does it all.

Surprise is the practice of accepting the unexpected interruption, and the practice of leaving enough space in the day for something to happen that isn't on the list. Surrendering to surprise is the practice of balancing structure and openness.