Christopher Alexander Quotes

It is not together, but the ensemble is perfect.

No house should ever be on a hill or on anything. It should be of the hill. Belonging to it. Hill and house should live together each the happier for the other.

We have always put the quest for balance at the center of our storytelling, whether it is the struggle to find it within one character, between a character and society, between disparate cultures or between humans and their environment.

Integration is a basic law of life; when we resist it, disintegration is the natural result, both inside and outside of us. Thus we come to the concept of harmony through integration.

There has to be a middle. Without it, nothing can ever truly be whole. Because it is not just the space between, but also what holds everything together.

Unity can only be manifested by the Binary. Unity itself and the idea of Unity are already two.

I claim that human mind or human society is not divided into watertight compartments called social, political and religious. All act and react upon one another.

Will and I are yin and yang. He's all sky, vast and bright and soaring, and I'm all earth. I'm here to ground him, and he's here to help me fly.

I need them as much as they need me.

Reflection and action must never be undertaken independently.

Synergy - the bonus that is achieved when things work together harmoniously.

Still follow sense, of ev'ry art the soul, Parts answering parts shall slide into a whole.

Let the end and the means be joined into one.

Each part in itself constitutes the whole to which it belongs.

So when we spend all of our time trying to separate that which is already joined, it's a waste of time.

If you don't have both of them working together in a complementary, cohesive way, you're not going to be successful.

In nature we never see anything isolated, but everything in connection with something else which is before it, beside it, under it and over it.

Nature moves towards balance.

My model for business is The Beatles: They were four guys that kept each others' negative tendencies in check; they balanced each other. And the total was greater than the sum of the parts.

And so The Snow Queen also became a story about the need to seek equilibrium, in our own lives, with the natural world, even within the universe at large.

I feel like Josh, Michelle and Adam were all team players, who wanted to be a part of an ensemble.

The fibers of all things have their tension and are strained like the strings of an instrument.

Building art is a synthesis of life in materialised form. We should try to bring in under the same hat not a splintered way of thinking, but all in harmony together.

The mandala describes balance. This is so whatever the pictorial form.

Eventually everything connects - people, ideas, objects. The quality of the connections is the key to quality per se.