Quotes About Construction

The result in all these cities, from Berlin to Stalingrad, was the classic Soviet-era housing solution: mile upon mile of identical gray or brown cement blocks; cheap, poorly-constructed, with no distinguishing architectural features and lacking any aesthetic indulgence (or public facilities).

As Tony Hoare observed: There are two ways of constructing a software design: one way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies and the other is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies.

triangular-shaped dwelling about fourteen feet across on its

I thought about all the fences that get built in this world - the ones that divide folks and tear them up, like the actions of the Kaiser and his henchmen, and the ones that bring folks closer together, like this stretch of fence Karl Mueller had build for me.

For the record, a mechanical engineer is responsible for how just about anything is built. We make sure any type of structure or vehicle or roadway is strong, safe and will stay together.

For all my respect for history, it seems to me that no insight into the past and no re-experiencing of pathogenic reminiscences – however powerful it may be – is as effective in freeing man from the grip of the past as the construction of something new…no matter what the original circumstances from which they arose, [the neurosis] is conditioned and maintained by a wrong attitude which is present all the time and which, once it is recognized, must be corrected now.

Thus, says Helmholtz [19], we do not try to construct machines that perform the thousands of acts typical of a man, but rather require that one machine performs a single act and replaces thousands of men.

Two nodes connected by a link are two nodes in proximity. They are two grains of space in contact with each other: this "touching" constructs the structure of space.

The freedom to choose, in other words, means the freedom to make mistakes, to falter and fail, to come face-to-face with your own flaws and limitations and fears and secrets, to live with the terrible uncertainty that necessarily attends the construction of a self.

The architecture of our future is not only unfinished the scaffolding has hardly gone up.

The argument that mining already paid its fair share [of tax] was also wrong.... On the figures the [Minerals] council supplied, mining enjoyed the fourteenth-lowest effective company-tax rate out of nineteen sectors. It paid a lower rate than manufacturing and construction, the very sectors it was crowding out. p196

Brick and blood built Astapor, and brick and blood her people.

Contemporary architecture was of necessity mediocre.

Language is not an abstract construction of the learned, or of dictionary-makers, but is something arising out of the work, needs, ties, joys, affections, tastes, of long generations of humanity, and has its bases broad and low, close to the ground.

Men build bridges and throw ra ilroads across deserts, and yet they contend successfully that the job of sewing on a button is beyond them. Accordingly, they don't have to sew buttons.

There is nothing in which the birds differ more from man than the way in which they can build and yet leave a landscape as it was before.

Theories are like scaffolding: they are not the house, but you cannot build the house without them.

Rome was not built in a day.

Today is the blocks with which we build.

We must have a better word than "prefabricated", why not "ready-made"?

U po?etku su svi bili gordi na veliku zadužbinu koju treba da podigne vezir iz njihovog kraja.Tada još nisu znali ovo što vide sada: da te slavne gra?evine traže ovoliki krš i nemir, napor i trošak.

Channel 75's sleek silver building. It had been constructed in the mid-twenties when the media boom had hit such astronomical proportions as to generate more profits than a small country.

Creía que la historia de nuestra vida es nuestra para edificarla como deseemos, dentro de las restricciones impuestas por el mundo real e incluso contra ellas

Funny, there was a reason that people "built" lives together. Although the choices you made as husband and wife were not bricks, and time was not mortar, you were still constructing something tangible and real.