Quotes About Structure

Even as the cell is the unit of the organic body, so the family is the unit of society.

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.

She knew from personal experience how crime existed only to the degree that the law cooperated with it. She showed me how, in the country's entire social, political and economic structure, the criminal, the law, and the politicians were actually inseparable partners.

Afraid she would laugh, she focused elsewhere, landing in Tuvok's familiar, structured psyche, which she always pictured as a spice rack, neatly organized alphabetically

What follows coheres with what went before. Not like a random catalogue whose order is imposed upon it arbitrarily, but logically connected. And just as what exists is ordered and harmonious, what comes into being betrays an order too. Not a mere sequence, but an astonishing concordance.

This company didn't have one culture. It had as many cultures as it did managers. No

It is the strict adherence to daily routine that tends towards the maintenance of good morale and the preservation of sanity," he says out loud.

Stories are no good, not even the short ones, because by the time you get to the second page he's forgotten the beginning. Where are we without our plots?

Controlling complexity is the essence of computer programming.

Most software today is very much like an Egyptian pyramid with millions of bricks piled on top of each other, with no structural integrity, but just done by brute force and thousands of slaves.

Game mechanics are the core of what a game truly is. They are the interactions and relationships that remain when all of the aesthetics, technology, and story are stripped away.

The problem of architecture as I see it is the problem of all art – the elimination of the human element from the consideration of the form.

I think architecture becomes interesting when it has a double character, that is, when it is as simple as possible but, at the same time as complex as possible

Music's exclusive function is to structure the flow of time and keep order in it.

Music is given to us with the sole purpose of establishing an order in things, including, and particularly, the coordination between man and time.

A great advantage of X-ray analysis as a method of chemical structure analysis is its power to show some totally unexpected and surprising structure with, at the same time, complete certainty.

A child... never takes time off as a child; time off does not begin until the principles of order have been accepted.

For me mindfulness is like building a house, so the next time the tsunami that is depression comes I'll have a structure in place to resist it.

Rhythm is form cut into time.

If we can by any method establish a relation of mutual trust between the laborer and the employer, we shall lay the foundation stone of a structure that will endure for all time.

The schools schedule is a series of units of time; the clock is king.

If you want everything to be nice and straight all the time, then go live in a world made with a triungular ruler.

One thing I know for sure about raising children is that every single day a kid needs discipline.... But also every single day a kid needs a break.

She said that sometimes she uses a formula when writing a short story, which goes ABDCE, for Action, Background, Development, Climax, and Ending.