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Quotes About Structure

one slice in a long white cake of apartment houses.
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
Democracy is also a single ideology, and, like all such templates, it has its limits. what works in a legislature might not work in a corporation
~ Fareed Zakaria
There is no enduring emotion without syntax. Immortality depends on the grammarians.
~ Fernando Pessoa
People like rules, or at least the appearance of rules, even in fantasy.
~ Raymond E. Feist
Big forms fascinate me.
~ Krzysztof Penderecki
The problem is that the U.K. in essence is a feudal society. It's everyone in their place.
~ Brian Cox
Computers are hierarchical. We have a desktop and hierarchical files which have to mean everything.
~ Ted Nelson
The way films establish the order of scenes is very artificial.
~ Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
No matter how the financial system is set up, no matter what the economic system is, as long as you have people, you're going to have financial crises; you're going to have bubbles that manifest themselves in the financial system.
~ Henry Paulson
I think finite series gives you more time to write down your journey in any show. When it's a finite series, you know the start and know your end. The writers and actors know what is going to happen, so the interest is not lost.
~ Jennifer Winget
The very design of 'Breaking Bad' was that it was a finite, close-ended series.
~ Vince Gilligan
In many instances, order is apprehended first of all by the senses.
~ Rudolf Arnheim
Most of the time I approach a track as series of experiments: seeing what fits, and trying to manipulate sounds into each other so they have some kind of dialogue, and then start building a structure around it.
~ Bonobo
Under the Trump administration, the traditional structure of White House oversight of American offensive and defensive cyberactivities is being dismantled.
~ David E. Sanger
Like children, adolescents need a framework. Otherwise they can't cope. When someone has unlimited freedom, it means there's nobody who cares what they're doing.
~ Joan Lingard
The whole edifice of modern physics is built up on the fundamental hypothesis of the atomic or molecular constitution of matter.
~ C. V. Raman
The hierarchy of relations, from the molecular structure of carbon to the equilibrium of the species and ecological whole, will perhaps be the leading idea of the future.
~ Joseph Needham
The detailed geometry of the coenzyme molecule as a whole is fascinating in its complexity.
~ Dorothy Hodgkin
If you insist that individual rights are the summum bonum, then the whole structure of society falls down.
~ B. F. Skinner
When Sepultura played in B, because of Iggor's drumming, because of the way the songs are structured, it's very different from Korn. So, it opens up a whole new world.
~ Max Cavalera
It took me a while to understand the meaning of a franchise: the reasons why you see lawyer, doctor, cop shows. It's not because anyone in their right mind says, 'You know, what's the most fascinating thing in the world?' It's because you need something new that happens every week in a frame.
~ Amy Bloom
Why do you speak to me of the stones? It is only the arch that matters to me.
~ Kublai Khan
I can be a little messy and wild and carefree with my creativity as a solo artist. In a group, there's a certain structure, and everyone has a part to play, and being a solo artist, I can do as I please.
~ Dawn Richard
Lower-income immigrant families might receive more in benefits than they pay in taxes. But that mathematical equilibrium is temporary, and an artifact of the way the tax-and-transfer system is structured to help lower-income families and to support families with kids.
~ Annie Lowrey