Christopher Alexander Quotes

From a sequence of these individual patterns, whole buildings with the character of nature will form themselves within your thoughts, as easily as sentences.

Christopher Alexander

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I had true rivalries. Not only did I want to beat my opponent, but I didn't want to let him up, either. I had a rivalry with Mac, Lendl, Borg. Everybody knew there was tension between us, on court and off. That's what's really ingrained in my mind: 'This is real. This isn't a soft rivalry.' There were no hugs and kisses.

Jimmy Connors

MindWantTrueOpponentRealBeat

I write diverse books because the world we live in is diverse, and I want my books to reflect that truth.

Jenny Han

LiveTruthWorldWantWriteReflect

I read a quote by James Dean when I was 17; he said, 'I'd rather starve than do a whole bunch of work that I don't care about.' The older I got, the more I understood what he was saying. If I want to do a whole lot of work that I don't care about, then I would probably be working in a law office somewhere.

Mehcad Brooks

WorkLawSayingCareSaidWant

I don't think most people are all heroic or all villainous, so I find ambiguity of motivations to be a natural human condition.

Ann Nocenti

PeopleThinkFindHumanAmbiguity

IT put India on the map of the world and told Indians that they are somebody in the world. There is something about technology that is very empowering: 'We are designing software for the best companies in the world.'

Anand Giridharadas

TechnologyBestWorldIndiaMap

Obama has seen to the passage of the most radical legislation in recent American history and so-called 'progressives' should be thanking him for it - even as many of the rest of us rear in horror from its implications.

John Podhoretz

HistoryRestAmericanHorrorHimUs

Children don't run around outside as much as they did. They sit in front of computer games.

Toyo Ito

ChildrenRunGamesOutsideSitMuch

It's not like 'Print versus Digital - only one will survive.' We live in a hybrid world now, and I think the near-term future is also hybrid.

Robin Sloan

FutureLiveWorldSurviveThinkNow

Truth of a modest sort I can promise you, and also sincerity. That complete, praiseworthy sincerity which, while it delivers one into the hands of one's enemies, is as likely as not to embroil one with one's friends.

Joseph Conrad

TruthFriendsHandsYouI Can

I routinely make trips to China and India where we have offices to continue to maintain the linkages that are necessary to run a successful business.

Douglas Leone

BusinessIndiaRunChinaSuccessful

I'd done recordings, little demos, since I was in college, which I used to get gigs. But I never thought I'd have a record label.

Norah Jones

CollegeThoughtDoneNeverLittle

You can have someone younger, faster, but if you have got that experience and that ring craft, you can do anything in that ring.

Nicola Adams

ExperienceSomeoneYouRingCraft

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