Famous Quotes & Sayings

There has to be a lot of communication between the contractor, the architect and the owner. If not, you end up with a lot of unhappy people.

James Wyatt

There has been no regular architecture since Sir William Chambers - the public taste corrupted by the Adams, I am obliged to comply with it.

We're trying to create architecture comparable to a historic site. We're hopeful you'll get the sense of a resort destination.

Our government promised it would fix up the waterfront, its inefficiencies and its archaic work practice, and we meant it.

Overall, we are pretty optimistic. We think the September and December quarters will be good ones for the enterprise software providers. The business software cycle is on the rise, rebounding nicely from the Y2K problem of last year and the successful transition from client-server architecture to Internet architecture software.

Larry Brown

Over the years, as I traveled throughout the archery circuit, I saw there weren't high numbers of black or Hispanic participants. I decided to make a difference, to bring this sport to our neighborhoods.

Sandy Wilson

Our target is to deliver demonstrable evidence to our customer that in-hub electric-drive is mature enough to meet the FRES requirement and that the hybrid power architecture can be successfully integrated with an open standards electronic architecture. Further, this is an excellent opportunity for the customer to evaluate the transformational benefits of a hybrid-electric drive that offers track-like performance at wheeled vehicle costs, which has the capability to quickly balance or shift power to mission systems that may have different requirements based on mission profile. This optimizes performance for fuel efficiency, and removes traditional armored fighting-vehicle drive line constraints, which will significantly reduce the whole-life cost of ownership.

Overall, maybe 40 African-Americans become licensed in any given year. The numbers of African-American women (who number 145 nationally) are bound to continue the most dramatic growth because women now represent half of the student body in architecture schools.

Jane Harman

It is appropriate to insist on an overall strategy for space architecture and to face tough decisions, ... Boeing management readily admits that mistakes were made on this program. But those mistakes are now corrected and I remain hopeful that a well-managed program will ultimately move forward.

It is a remarkable honor to win these two national awards because they represent a new measure for the value of architecture architecture that balances beauty with performance and productivity.

Patricia Williams

I think there is a development piece missing, that just looking at the architecture and construction piece is not going to solve. I support mass transit, but it can't have a lot of collateral damage to everything around it.

Linda McCartney

James is studying architecture now, but neither Paul nor I would be surprised if he moves into music, as he has such a passion for playing.

Hayden Christensen

Last time I was here, I went up to the archives and got shown around, and there was the dark helm, ... I asked if I could put it on and get a picture, which is pretty funny, because I'm wearing this gray track suit and had this enormous helmet on which is just completely disproportionate.

Vint Cerf

Some of us feel NAT boxes are sort of an abomination because they really do mess about with the basic protocol architecture of the Internet.

Thom Mayne

Somehow, architecture alters the way we think about the world and the way we behave. Any serious architecture, as a litmus test, has to be that.

Nasser's been the primary architect of a failed transformation of Ford from its core automotive heritage to some expansive consumer-centric organization, which we think employees, dealers, suppliers and investors have found to varying degrees to be somewhat incomprehensible.

G-Eazy

London, from the architecture to the culture to the fashion to the accents, feels like it's a special place.

It is certainly true that the architects of Communist expansion are taking every possible measure to impose their dogmas upon the world.

Jerry Colangelo

I think Toronto is an ideal situation. There's good ownership. There's talent. There's cap room. He has the chance to be the architect of something special.

It is only a matter of time before IBM focuses on a delivering a certified LAMP stack. Also HP is likely to augment its open-source reference architecture with more value-added software and services,

I think tape's going to be around a long time, but it's being repositioned. We're still going to need tape to hold older backups and longer term archives because it's still the most inexpensive way to do that. The difference is that tape will be the second tier of backups, not the first tier anymore.

Joseph Kosinski

I went to school for engineering, I studied jazz. So I always had this kind of creative side and technical side, and I thought architecture might be the way to combine them, so I went to architecture school in New York.

Paul will provide landscape architecture and we'll do civil architecture. We'll help with layout and all of the things he needs for construction.

Our line of business structure has served us very well in the past, when customer segments and product requirements were very distinct. Today, the differences have blurred between these customer segments and Cisco is in a unique position to provide the industry's broadest family of products united under a consistent architecture designed to help our customers improve productivity and profitability.

David Allen

Thousands of executives and professionals and homemakers have their own automatic labelers, ... and my archives are full of their comments, like, 'Incredible -- I wouldn't have believed what a difference it makes!' the labeler will be used to label your file folders, binder spines and numerous other things.

We got to play to a crowd of Lucasfilm, LucasArts and ILM employees straight after their work hours and it was surprisingly good fun, ... Our song 'Clones' from Republic Commando and our cover of ' Cantina Band ' went down like a storm. We had props of Darth Vader , a stormtrooper and R2-D2 brought out of the archives and put on stage with us, as we played a short half hour set. Artoo is well aware he's my favorite so he obviously had to hang out stage left.

Steve Ballmer

We have an incredible opportunity...to revolutionize the Internet user experience. We need to deliver our next generation services platform in order to do that. And we need Bill Gates 100 percent focused on helping architect that.

Philip Treacy

There's a technicality to designing and wearing hats. A hat is balancing the proportions of your face; it's like architecture or mathematics.

We know the clock is ticking. We need to have the architects create a design and have the plan ready to present to the public by May.

We have Victorian houses, Craftsman houses, all kinds of architecture. A lot of people don't realize what a variety we have.

Renzo Piano

I came to architecture from building. Because my father was a builder, everybody was - and is - a builder in my family.

Renzo Piano

The difference between a builder and an architect is that an architect also cares about desire, about dreams.

Renzo Piano

When you design a building, you start from a general philosophy, and you come down, and you start from detail and come up. Only the theoretical architect believes that you can make the concept and then sometime, somebody will come to build it.