Quotes About Structure

Architecture is always political.

Nothing can be divided into more parts than it can possibly be constituted of. But matter (i.e. finite) cannot be constituted of infinite parts.

Clinton set up an entire secret, unsecured communications structure outside of the government she was charged with serving at the highest level; she was the Secretary of State. Classified information that, in the wrong hands, could potentially bring harm to our country - and many in service to our country - was available to be appropriated.

Make your mold. The best flux in the world will not make a usable shape unless you have a mold to pour it in.

Henri Frederic Amiel

Of all human inventions the organization, a machine constructed of people performing interdependent functions, is the most powerful.

It's all about consistency, and what makes a child or a dog secure: order, clarity - all those things.

She would give them order. She would create constellations.

This continuity of sound and form was something that I became really interested in from working with Ligeti. He was always going on about how form has to be continuous.

The philosophy of the club, the structure of the club, the core values for me are very important issues.

Companies need to have rules - that's a given - but they don't have to be shortsighted and lazy attempts at creating order.

The criteria for writing mythological books are different. Because the results are known, the end is known. Somebody has created that limit and you have to play within that limit.

What is crucial is there be laws.

Being chaotic isn't cute.

The college and university systems, at least, have become like television. There's a bit of this and a bit of that and some compulsory program with its components connected in a way that only a planner could understand.

As you deal with more and more complex systems, it becomes harder and harder to find deep and interesting properties.

For the past 30 years, I have been committed to the development and application of radioisotopic methodology to analyze the fine structure of biologic systems.

Politicon should be applauded for recognizing the increasing impact of technology, not only on American social and economic systems but on the very structure of our system of politics.

I've got the brain for systems and a head for figures.

Boron is carbon's neighbor on the periodic table, which means it can do a passable carbon impression and wriggle its way into the matrix of a diamond. But it has one fewer electron, so it can't quite form the same four perfect bonds.

I'm always writing something. There's always some structure sitting around someplace. There's always things on the computer, things scratched on score paper, legal tablets full of lyrics. It's never not buzzing around me all the time. I'm always doing it.

I'm not an enemy of formations and tactics because they are important - but you get to the point where the whole system loses balance.

At Chelsea, there's more focus on team shape, a lot of work on tactics.

The corporate system dictates what gets made, and the movies are so bad because of the economic structure of Hollywood. The big business takeover of Hollywood is at fault rather than American storytellers - it's what keeps textured movies from getting made.