Famous Quotes & Sayings

Oscar Niemeyer

Architecture is my work, and I've spent my whole life at a drawing board, but life is more important than architecture. What matters is to improve human beings.

When I lived in Beijing in 1996, it was a horizontal city. If you wanted to go out for a burger, if you wanted to really treat yourself, you went to this place called the Jianguo Hotel. The architect had proudly described it as a perfect replica of a Holiday Inn that he had seen in Palo Alto, California.

Conor Oberst

I'll write about myself, or people I know, or archetypal characters, but the goal is to get at some truth, not to necessarily convey my own experience as an individual to the world.

David Foster Wallace

And he wishes, in the cold quiet of his archer's heart, that he himself could feel the intensity of their reconciliations as strongly as he feels that of their battles.

David Chipperfield

Britain loves a bargain, but you don't get good, lasting architecture on the cheap.

Christopher Wren

Architecture aims at Eternity

Dinesh D'Souza

The capitalist has this over the politician and the clergyman; he has in practice done more to raise the standard of living of the poor than all the government and church programs in history....Monsanto and the Archer Daniels Midland Company have fed more hungry people than all the...soup kitchens combined.

Delia Ephron

In Los Angeles, by the time you're 35, you're older than most of the buildings.

Confucius

In archery we have something like the way of the superior man. When the archer misses the center of the target, he turns round and seeks for the cause of his failure in himself.

Confucius

The archer who misses his mark does not blame the target. He stops, corrects himself and shoots again.

Just like every golf course has a 'pro,' every gun and archery has a 'pro,' they can help you find what you need.

John has distinguished himself with his sound judgment and great leadership skills. He will be a key architect in helping us continue as innovators as we chart our course to higher profitability. ... He always takes a big picture view to everything he does while bringing a great deal of wisdom, knowledge and patience to all matters he deals with; qualities that make him the perfect choice to work side by side with me in running the business and operational areas of the network.

Graham Arnold

It a win-win situation for Archie, the club and for his country. Guus wants Archie to get some meaningful game time - and that's great for us.

Michael Graves

I taught at Princeton for 39 years, and the school of architecture on the campus is the worst building on the campus.

Bill Elliott

It always feels good to put on the McDonald's uniform and see that big arch on the hood of the car, ... California is the kind of track that suits us pretty well. We've had some good qualifying and race runs there in the past.

Richard Wilson

He wanted to be a great architect and design great public buildings. Instead, he was doing a lot of private commissions. He just did these 'white elephants,' as Henry James called them,

He is the single most successful architect of a financial services colossus of our time.

Green Arrow was a very complicated character to take on because he has archaic weaponry. Catwoman, I think is more of a simple archetype to grasp, so it will be about nuance. But I think you need three or four issues before you say, 'Ah ha! Now I really know how to write this character!' You're carrying them around with you.

Harrow the house of the dead; look shining at / New styles of architecture, a change of heart.

Bill Gates

There are some architecture changes that need to be made,

Michel Foucault

As the archeology of our thought easily shows, man is an invention of recent date. And one perhaps nearing its end.

Louis Kahn

To express is to drive.And when you want to give something presence, you have to consult nature.And there is where Design comes in.And if you think of Brick, for instance,and you say to Brick,""What do you want Brick?""And Brick says to you""I like an Arch.""And if you say to Brick""Look, arches are expensive, and I can use a concrete lentil over you. What do you think of that?""""Brick?""Brick says:""... I like an Arch

Romesh Gunesekera

To come to England in the 1970s was to return to this strange other-world of half-known history. I found the imperial architecture curiously familiar: the post office, the town hall, the botanic gardens.

Heredity is a strong factor, even in architecture. Necessity first mothered invention. Now invention has little ones of her own, and they look just like grandma.

John Carmack

Hardware wise, there's a lot of marketing hype about the consoles. A lot of it really needs to be taken with grains of salt about exactly how powerful it is, ... The Xbox 360 has an architecture where you essentially have got three processors and they're all running the same memory pool and they're all synchronized, and cache coherent, and you can spawn off another thread in your program and make it go do some work. That's kind of the best case and it's still really difficult to turn into faster performance or getting it to get more stuff done in a game title.

I think it's deeper than architecture. Design has taken on a new importance in life.

It is a crime that material is being stolen from so many archives for it deprives future researchers insight into the past.

Dylan Walsh

L.A. is so much about ratings and box office; that defines everything. And here, of course it's important, but it's not part of the culture - there's too much else going on in New York. They're not going to let one industry monopolize your attention, you know? You're likely to have best friends who are architects or newspaper reporters.

There is a huge opportunity with Monterey and Merced. The Intel architecture has the potential to displace the proprietary, RISC, and mainframe architectures that have been kings for so long.

Don Tapscott

There is a fundamental change taking place in terms of how corporations create value and arguably, in terms of the core architecture of the corporation. I think it's the biggest change in a century in the ways that companies build relationships and interact with other entities, institutions in the economy and in society and arguably, the nature of the corporation itself.

We're pretty confident that developers are going to support our architecture. I say that because we've had a lot of overwhelming support and excitement.

He's been calling a lot of the plays over the last couple of years. This is his architecture, this is his strategy that Sun is playing. He has really put a lot of energy and new thinking into Sun.

There is a movement today to develop more security building blocks, and this could help by creating a second layer of security beyond the application level. Embedding security in the chip architecture provides protection from the ground up.