Building Material Quotes

Lisp isn't a language, it's a building material.

Industrialization of the building trade is a question of material. Hence the demand for a new building material is the first prerequisite.

You hear, Eugene?' said Lightwood over his shoulder. 'You are deeply interested in lime.' 'Without lime,' returned that unmoved barrister at law, 'my existence would be unilluminated by a ray of hope.

I remember, as a young architect, people always talked about I. M. Pei's concrete. He had a particular specification no one else knew.

The artistic capability of reinforced concrete is so fantastic - that is the way to go.

Cement doesn't give as much as snow.

I grew up in a brick house. What's wrong with bricks? An Englishman took me aside and said, "You have to understand, all the bricklayers in England are Irish, and the English hate the Irish."

What's nice about concrete is that it looks unfinished.

All the evidence of history suggests that man is indeed a rational animal, but with a near infinite capacity for folly. . . . He draws blueprints for Utopia, but never quite gets it built. In the end he plugs away obstinately with the only building material really ever at hand--his own part comic, part tragic, part cussed, but part glorious nature.

We're stuck in the concrete age. Concrete has really become this ever-present material that's almost impossible to get away from. It's cheap, abundant, and easy to work with, and to an extent, that's good.