Quotes About Structure

For the structure that we raise, Time is with materials filled; Our to-days and yesterdays Are the blocks with which we build.

There is, then, a logical priority about the arrangements, and logic has nothing to do with time.

Music is geometry in time.

An organization is a set of relationships that are persistent over time.

Anarchists try to identify power structures. They urge those exercising power to justify themselves. This justification does not succeed most of the time.

Where no plan is laid, where the disposal of time is surrendered merely to the chance of incident, chaos will soon reign.

Words cluster like chromosomes, determining the procedure.

Perhaps the worst thing about ideological thinking is that it implies a structure in and behind events, a history that is reiterative, with variations that cannot ultimately change the course of things and are therefore always trivial, no matter how much thought and labor goes into the making of them.

You may begin to realize that groups will pop up wherever symmetries exist. In fact, the collection of all the symmetry transformations of any system always from a group.

No wonder so many adults long to return to university, to all those deadlines--ahhh, that structure! Scaffolding to which we may cling! Even if it is arbitrary, without it, we're lost, wholly incapable of separating the Romantic from the Victorian in our sad, bewildering lives...

Until structures are in place for great ideas to be implemented, even the best of them will wind up on a treadmill that may speed up or slow down but will go nowhere.

why I like timetables, because they make sure I don't get lost in time.

Ray was disappointed by the (Millenium) wheel. Too well engineered, he said. He wanted the wind in his hair and a rusty handrail and the faint pssibility that the whole structure might collapse.

A mí me gustan los horarios, porque son la garantía de que no te vas a perder en el tiempo.

Prime numbers is what is left when you have taken all the patterns away.

He can see now that this is a delusion from which you suffer when the path chosen for you is a profitable one. When the path veers into darker, more difficult terrain you finally understand that what you thought was weakness in others is not weakness at all; it is simply the structure of the world.

If we begin to fear chaos and tighten down the controls too much, we'll have order but no creativity and, well, no life.

Structure is an art. In some ways, it's the only art.

The whole system is designed for uniformity and ease—under worst-case-scenario circumstances

That chef was right: messy station equals messy mind.

There is a satisfactory boniness about grammar which the flesh of sheer vocabulary requires before it can become a vertebrate and walk the earth.

An important aspect of writing unmentioned by Burton was 'priority'; what to tell first. That always seemed one of the basic problems.

La segunda puerta que debe abrirse es la de la sintaxis mental de una persona. La sintaxis mental es el modo en que los individuos organizan sus pensamientos.

She well knew the great architectural secret of decorating her constructions, and never descended to construct a decoration.