Quotes About Construction

If we are diligent about building well-formed and robust systems, we should never let little, convenient idioms lead to modularity breakdown. The startup process of object construction and wiring is no exception.

if the bricks aren't well made, the architecture of the building doesn't matter much.

O objetivo da arquitetura de software é minimizar os recursos humanos necessários para construir e manter um determinado sistema.

The first concern of the architect is to make sure that the house is usable — not to ensure that the house is made of bricks.

What do we talk about when we talk about architecture?

innovation lay in asserting the autonomy of the Russian national revolutionary process, in making the construction of a socialist society at home independent of the international revolution.

There is overwhelming scientific evidence on memory that shows memories are constructed by all of us and that the construction is a mixture of fact and fiction. Something similar is true for perception. Our perceptions are constructions that are a mixture of sense data processed by the brain and other data that the brain supplies to fill in the blanks.

The extreme situation in Somalia favored the imposition of international conservatorship. At this point, what I have termed strategies of construction and maintenance overlap. Conservatorship may involve international territorial administration. International territorial administration, in turn, may simultaneously involve the construction of new, and the maintenance and reequilibration of surviving, institutions of state.

Belief and order give strength. Have to clear rubble before you can build.

Belief and order give strength. Have to clear rubble before you can build. Will explain when see you next.

Let a woman know you were nervous, and she put her own construction on it, and sympathy went right out the window.

The first step to creating something was to figure out its parts. Master Luhhan had taught Perrin that on his first day at the forge. You couldn't make a spade without understanding how the handle fit to the blade. You couldn't make a hinge without knowing how the two leaves moved with the pin. You couldn't even make a nail without knowing its parts: head, shaft, point. Understand the pieces, Perrin.

The true system, the real system, is our present construction of systematic thought itself, rationality itself

He then tries to some extent to substitute this cosmos of his for the world of experience, and thus to overcome it... He make this cosmos and its construction the pivot of his emotional life in order to find in this way the peace and serenity which he cannot find in the narrow whirlpool of personal experience...

Quality isn't a substance. Neither is it a method. It's outside of both. If one builds a house using the plumb-line and spirit-level methods he does so because a straight vertical wall is less likely to collapse and thus has higher Quality than a crooked one. Quality isn't method. It's the goal toward which method is aimed.

But to tear down a factory or to revolt against a government or to avoid repair of a motorcycle because it is a system is to attack effects rather than causes; and as long as the attack is upon effects only, no change is possible. The true system, the real system, is our present construction of systematic thought itself, rationality itself, and if a factory is torn down but the rationality which produced it is left standing, then that rationality will simply produce another factory

If you are going to build the Empire State Building, the first thing you need to do is dig a deep hole and pour a strong foundation. If you are going to build a home in the suburbs, all you need to do is pour a six-inch slab of concrete.

The more apartments he builds, the more the price of rent goes down.

You're a brick! You're a whole cartload of bricks.

I'd like to see you think the roof back on that barn," Call said.

sometimes the only way to call attention to bad construction was to set fire to the building.

Rome wasn't built in a day

They rolled till the balls were almost as tall as Almanzo; then they rolled them into a wall. They packed snow between them, and made a good fort.

We all think we're snowflakes, but we're Tinker Toys, held together by our interchangeable parts. (39)