Quotes About Structure

I love the name 'Stella McCartney.' It's a beautiful name the way it rolls off the tongue. A couple of years ago, I wrote a cello concerto and used that as the basis for the rhythmic and melodic structure of the main motif of the cello part.

That work led to the emergence of the recombinant DNA technology thereby providing a major tool for analyzing mammalian gene structure and function and formed the basis for me receiving the 1980 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.

If humans were totally unstructured creatures, they would be... a tool which can properly be shaped by outside forces.

The fact that I had spent so many years doing media criticism and thinking really seriously about theme and structure did definitely help. Doing that for several years indirectly built a lot of tools that I would end up using when writing my own fiction.

Too often, companies focus on systems and structures that facilitate cultural change at the mid-management level, overlooking problems closer to the top.

With 'Slave Ambient', I was writing things on top of loops. Now I really get the structure of the song down, but I leave room for improvisation in the studio.

But it seemed to me that as soon as you have computer storage you could put every point you wanted in - make the ones that are less relevant to your central topic, further away or allow the central topic to move as the reader proceeded.

An honest politician has no goodies to toss around. This limits his effectiveness profoundly, because political power in India is dispersed throughout a multi-tiered federal structure; a local official who has not been paid off can sometimes stop a billion-dollar project.

I casually advise a few young companies, and I'm always surprised when I see them overthinking simple problems, adding too much structure too early, and trying to get formal too soon. Start-ups should embrace their scrappiness, not rush to toss it aside.

Just as a new scientific discovery manifests something that was already latent in the order of nature, and at the same time is logically related to the total structure of the existing science, so the new poem manifests something that was already latent in the order of words.

Insane sects grow with the same rhythm as big organizations. It is the rhythm of total destruction.

The emphasis in each piece is on building a whole, totally integrated structure. In doing this, we try to carry on - in ensemble as well as solo sections - the mood of a jazz soloist. I mean that principle of kinetic improvisation that keeps a jazz solo building.

Grain isn't structured like a screen door that you're looking through, but pixels are. Film-based grain is just all over the place, one frame totally different from the next. So your edges are coolly sharp and have a different feeling, an organic feeling rather than this mechanic feeling you get with digital.

The universe is incredibly more orderly than it has any right to be.

This book is about the nature of time, the beginning of the universe, and the underlying structure of physical reality.

our thoughts not only become wired into our brain––they change the structure of the brain itself.

To refer to the Church as a building is to call people 2 x 4's.

And suddenly I see I do write poems in sentences—not broken into lines, but wound around the caesura, making a caduceus.

All was in place— the fitted box of the planet, the tiered sewing-table town.

Aunque sólo sea por razones de estructura dramática, la historia de la revolución rusa necesita las grandes purgas del mismo modo que la historia de la revolución francesa necesita el terror jacobino.

Nice rear assembly. I thought. I felt a mild twinge of guilt, considering Abigail's plight, but I couldn't help evaluating Tom's retreating posterior, and putting it in terms of canine structure was second nature.

Military and corporate structures are hierarchical, complex, and arcane. Both science and technology employ an esoteric language familiar mainly to the initiates, while military-speak is a language unto itself. Democracy, whose culture extols the common and shared, is alien to all of these practices and their modes of communication.

The first thing that confronts us in studying verbal structures is that they are arranged sequentially, and have to be read or listened to in time.

I always had a sense of liking diagrams, from the time I was studying architecture. Architecture is built diagrams, basically.