Quotes
Authors
Christopher Alexander

"Every place is given its character by certain patterns of events that keep on happening there.... These patterns of events are locked in with certain geometric patterns in the space. Indeed, each building and each town is ultimately made out of these patterns in the space, and out of nothing else; they [patterns in the space] are the atoms and molecules from which a building or a town is made."

Source : "The Timeless Way of Building". Book by Christopher Alexander, 1979.

Christopher Alexander

#Character Quotes #Space Quotes #Events Quotes

“I never wear matching socks. It's kind of a thing that I have!”
“Our culture now wonderfully, alchemically transforms images and history into artistic material. The possibilities seem endless and wide open.”
“A woman can't change a man because she loves him. A man changes himself because he loves her.”
“Santa Claus is a god. He's no less a god than Ahura Mazda, or Odin, or Zeus. Think of the white beard, the chariot pulled through the air by a breed of animal which doesn't ordinarily fly, the prayers (requests for gifts) which are annually mailed to him and which so baffle the Post Office, the specially-garbed priests in all the department stories. And don't gods reflect their creators' society? The Greeks had a huntress goddess, and gods of agriculture and war and love. What else would we have but a god of giving, of merchandising, and of consumption?”
“I think there's no reason the Davis Cup couldn't be as powerful and popular and profitable as any of the four majors are today, given some changes.”
“The ink of the scholar is more sacred than the blood of the martyr.”
“So many actors are not open in front of the camera - they have a persona.”
“In the Great War, there is no room for the faint-hearted, the cowardly. A criminal or an anarchist will be better conditioned than a bourgeois, indecisive or cowardly man. They only need a push in the right direction. Only one who is born a hero or a warrior has a place in our order. Only the Lord of the Pure Will can march to the end, breaking in the gates of the City of Eternal Life. Because will, through its perseverance, creates the thing it contemplates. Only the Wild Hordes of Odin and Parsifal will achieve the Graal.”

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