Structure Quotes

Mathematics is the language with which God has written the universe.

We shape our buildings and afterwards our buildings shape us.

How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives. What we do with this hour, and that one, is what we are doing. A schedule defends from chaos and whim. It is a net for catching days. It is a scaffolding on which a worker can stand and labor with both hands at sections of time. A schedule is a mock-up of reason and order—willed, faked, and so brought into being; it is a peace and a haven set into the wreck of time; it is a lifeboat on which you find yourself, decades later, still living.

The map is not the territory... The only usefulness of a map depends on similarity of structure between the empirical world and the map.

The book of nature is written in the language of mathematics.

The loftiest edifices need the deepest foundations.

The family is the nucleus of civilization.

Architecture is the masterly, correct, and magnificent play of masses brought together in light. Our eyes are made to see forms in light: light and shade reveal these forms.

Chaos is merely order waiting to be deciphered

Chaos was the law of nature; Order was the dream of man.

Nature is written in mathematical language.

The foundation stones of a great building are destined to groan and be pressed upon; it is not for them to crown the edifice.

Architecture is the reaching out for the truth.

Laws themselves, political Constitutions, are not our Life; but only the house wherein our Life is led.

The objective of the people who bring impeachment charges, if the Republicans do this on Trump, the objective will be to get one of them back in the power structure.

Architecture is the learned game, correct and magnificent, of forms assembled in the light.

Order and simplification are the first steps toward the mastery of a subject.

Architecture is invention.

My songs are somewhere between story and situation. There's also character and mood. I'm an intuitive writer, both with instrumentals and songs with words.

When I came into the oil there was chaos. I brought order…. It was done the way it was because that was the way it had to be done.

I am a person who believes in form, in the harmony of order. Where we can, we must give things a meaningful shape.

My filing system is messy but orderly.

I don't like to get too caught up in habits because too much structure can stifle creativity. But there are a few habits that make us more productive and are healthy to work into every workweek, if not every day. I love to start the day with a workout - even just a run on the treadmill while catching up on the morning headlines.

The Great Architect of the universe built it of good firm stuff.

Bad programmers worry about the code. Good programmers worry about data structures and their relationships.