"If you look at any leaf on any tree branch, it's similar to but not exactly a repetition of the previous branch. So the new science of complexity or showing how an architecture can be produced just as quickly, cheaply and efficiently by using computer production methods to get the slight variation, the self-similarity."

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Charles Jencks

#Self Quotes #Tree Quotes #Looks Quotes

“I believe that a lot of our striving after the symbols and levers of success is due to a basic insecurity, a need to prove ourselves. That done, grown up at last, we are free to stop pretending.”
“My goal ... not to go back to Rembrandt ... but to bring the great tradition and whatever is great about it, up to date.”
“I tell people I'm too stupid to know what's impossible. I have ridiculously large dreams, and half the time they come true.”
“There really isn't anything that you could call 'bad' color. It all has to do with the amount of color you use and in what context it appears.”

Source : Jay Maisel (2014). “Light, Gesture, and Color”, p.6, New Riders
“There is no kind of framework within which we can find consciousness in the plural; this is simply something we construct because of the temporal plurality of individuals, but it is a false construction The only solution to this conflict insofar as any is available to us at all lies in the ancient wisdom of the Upanishad.”

Source : "My View of the World" by Erwin Schrodinger, (Ch, 4), 1961.
“No man bosses me around, and no man ever will.”
“When I'm in the studio, there are no boundaries.”
“We have 45,000 square miles of geography in Ohio.”

Source : "Countdown" with Keith Olbermann, www.nbcnews.com. November 29, 2004.

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