Paulo Mendes da Rocha famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

  • When time and space and change converge, we find place. We arrive in Place when we resolve things. Place is peace of mind and understanding. Place is knowledge of self. Place is resolution.

  • Thus would I double my life's fading space;For he that runs it well, runs twice his race.

  • If a man will comprehend the richness and variety of the universe, and inspire his mind with a due measure of wonder and awe, he must contemplate the human intellect not only on its heights of genius but in its abysses of ineptitude...

  • You have your identity when you find out, not what you can keep your mind ON, but what you can't keep your mind OFF.

  • The minds of stone lovers had colonised stones as lichens clung to them with golden or grey-green florid stains. The human world of stones is caught in organic metaphors like flies in amber. Words came from flesh and hair and plants. Reniform, mammilated, botryoidal, dendrite, haematite. Carnelian is from carnal, from flesh. Serpentine and lizardite are stone reptiles ; phyllite is leafy-green.

  • The infinite vibratory levels, the dimensions of interconnectedness are without end. There is nothing independent. All beings and things are residents in your awareness.

  • By instructing students how to learn, unlearn and relearn, a powerful new dimension can be added to education.

  • Some compilers allow a check during execution that subscripts do not exceed array dimensions. This is a help, but not sufficient. First, many programmers do not use such compilers because They're not efficient. (Presumably, this means that it is vital to get the wrong answers quickly.)

  • So you see, movies are really another dimension.

  • I've begun to realize that you can listen to silence and learn from it. It has a quality and a dimension all its own.