"One begins to think with that new building block, rather than with littler pieces. And finally, the things which seem like elements dissolve, and leave a fabric of relationships behind, which is the stuff that actually repeats itself, and gives the structure to a building or a town."

-- Christopher Alexander

#Block Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Giving Quotes

“I always try and come up with a clear theme when I'm making a videogame.”
“Chicago is a wonderful area because it's blessed with a tremendous number of museums of various sorts, not only the Art Institute of Chicago but the Field Museum of Natural History, the Oriental Museum on the south side.”
“Perhaps the wind Wails so in winter for the summers dead, And all sad sounds are nature's funeral cries For what has been and is not.”
“The goal of female education must invariably be the future mother.”
“You don't know what God can do with your broken pieces until you give God your broken pieces.”
“If you can't say anything good about someone, sit right here by me.”
“Men are irrelevant. Women are happy or unhappy, fulfilled or unfulfilled, and it has nothing to do with men.”
“Man knows that the world is not made on a human scale; and he wishes that it were.”

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