Quotes About Structure

In Shakespeare, unique individuals repudiate the stereotypes demanded by the structure of the play: Shylock commands our sympathy, Barnardine refuses to be hanged. Individuals trump the category.

If you're talking to an architect, he can look at a blank piece of paper, and once the initial design is there, the formula kicks in. Each room should have something unique and different about it - much the same way that in a song, every eight bars or so, a new piece of information should be introduced.

There's definitely something about the structure of 'Caddyshack' that is unique that no one has ever been able to achieve since then.

Consider in 1945, when the United Nations was first formed, there were something like fifty-one original member countries. Now the United Nations is made up of 193 nations, but it follows the same structure in which five nations control it. It's an anti-democratic structure.

It is this power structure which the Radical Right in the United States has been attacking for years in the belief that they are attacking the Communists.

As you move up a traditional, sort of bureaucratic structure, there's a certain point at which you realize, 'Well, I'm not really on the implementation or execution side - I'm not on the battlefield. I'm an operations person who's overseeing multiple units that are out on the ground doing the job.'

When business became big business - conglomerates employing hundreds and even thousands of people - companies divided themselves into still smaller units.

According to physical measurements, DNA chains are, on the average, 10,000 units long.

Form and function are a unity, two sides of one coin. In order to enhance function, appropriate form must exist or be created.

Weakening the federal structure essentially hampers our unity in diversity, India's biggest strength.

Man's striving for order, of which art is but one manifestation, derives from a similar universal tendency throughout the organic world; it is also paralleled by, and perhaps derived from, the striving towards the state of simplest structure in physical systems.

Classifying the stars has helped materially in all studies of the structure of the universe.

The evils that arise to us from the structure of the material universe are neither trivial nor few, yet the history of political society sufficiently shows that man is, of all other beings, the most formidable enemy to man.

The marvelous thing is that even in studying linguistics, we find that the universe as a whole is patterned, ordered, and to some degree intelligible to us.

I do have a strong sense of an order in the universe.

If our local, observable universe is embedded in a larger structure, a multiverse, then there's other places in this larger structure that have denizens in them that call their local environs the universe. And conditions in those other places could be very different. Or they could be pretty similar to what we have here.

Another feature that everybody notices about the universe is that it's complex.

The imperial province should have a university, the prefectures should have colleges, and the counties should have day schools.

To write a kernel without a data structure and have it be as consistent and graceful as UNIX would have been a much, much harder challenge.

People have a fear of the unknown. Insects have different senses than us, different amount of limbs and their body structure is very different. It's hard for us to really relate to them and understand them.

We have 100 genes or so, which we know we can't knock out without killing the cell, that are of unknown structure.

There's a cumulative effect to getting good parts as a freelance actor, because you're only as good as your last job, and you have to keep going out and getting them. Unless you're part of the finance structure, by which I mean a bankable star, which I never was and never will be.

Women and love are underpinnings. Examine them and you threaten the very structure of culture.

Women tend to be preservers of the social structure, of marriage. They don't want to upset their husbands or their significant others. They don't want to hurt people.