"Our idea of nature is increasingly being determined by scientific developments. And they have become decisive for our image of reality."

-- Thom Mayne

#Reality Quotes #Ideas Quotes #Development Quotes

“Strangely enough, I really think that shoes are a communication tool between people.”
“Summer Â— summer Â— summer! The soundless footsteps on the grass!”
“The ultimate aim of all artistic activity is building! ... Architects, sculptors, painters, we must all get back to craft! ... The artist is a heightened manifestation of the craftsman. ... Let us form ... a new guild of craftsmen without the class divisions that set out to raise an arrogant barrier between craftsmen and artists! ... Let us together create the new building of the future which will be all in one: architecture and sculpture and painting.”
“Google is so strange. It promises everything, but everything isnâ€™t there. You type in the words for what you need, and what you need becomes superfluous in an instant, shadowed instantaneously by the things you really need, and none of them answerable by Google.”

Source : Ali Smith (2011). “There but for the”, p.100, Penguin UK
“[The imagination] . . . inspires an audacious mental habit. We are as elastic as the gas of gunpowder, and . . . a word dropped in conversation, sets free our fancy, and instantly our heads are bathed with galaxies, and our feet tread the floor of the Pit.”
“Our history shows that what we must do is assert domination over the machine, to guide it so that it works for the values of our choice.”

Source : Charles A. Reich (1970). “The Greening of America”
“It is nonsense to speak of 'higher' and 'lower' pleasures. To a hungry man it is, rightly, more important that he eat than that he philosophize.”
“Of all sound of all bells... most solemn and touching is the peal which rings out the Old Year.”

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