"When most objects are truly functional, this technological age, which is just beginning, will be truly civilised. When all objects in this country are truly functional, Australia will be as beautiful in its own way as classical Greece."

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Source : Robin Boyd, Australian Broadcasting Commission (1967). “Artificial Australia”

Robin Boyd

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“I know if I was a woman I wouldnt want to be a member of an organization thats mostly men.”
“I am at peace with God; how then can I be confounded?”
“Real numbers are good if you add the word 'random'.”
“I don't think Hollywood makes many good films anymore. How many directors can you really trust to have an artistic vision, not a corporate vision or a watered-down communal one?”
“To have faith in Christ means more than simply despising the delights of this life. It means we should bear all our daily trials that may bring us sorrow, distress, or unhappiness, and bear them patiently for as long as God wishes and until He comes to visit us. For it is said, I waited on the Lord and He came to me.”

Source : "The practical and theological chapters ; and, Three theological discourses".
“The only distinct meaning of the word "natural" is stated, fixed, or settled; since what is natural as much requires and presupposes an intelligent agent to render it so, i.e. to effect it continually or at stated times, as what is supernatural or miraculous does to effect it for once.”
“Interesting doesn't always equal practical, but being practical is always less interesting.”
“Nulla (enim) res tantum ad dicendum proficit, quantum scriptio Nothing so much assists learning as writing down what we wish to remember.”

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