“Craft is what enables you to be successful when you’re not inspired.”
— Brian Eno
Quotes
Architecture is Organization
“Architecture is organization. You are an organizer, not a drawing-board stylist.”
— Le Corbusier
Accordance With the Truth of Things
“If names cannot be correct, then language is not in accordance with the truth of things; and if language is not in accordance with the truth of things, affairs cannot be carried on to success.”
— Confucius
A Good General
“I know he’s a good general, but is he lucky?”
— Napoleon Bonaparte
Mortar
“I’m more interested in the mortar than the bricks.”
— Jerry Seinfeld
The Practice of Principles
“The practice of principles must precede their derivation, articulation, and institutionalization.”
— John Lewis Gaddis
The Simplicity on the Far Side of Complexity
“I wouldn’t give a fig for the simplicity on this side of complexity; I would give my life for the simplicity on the far side of complexity.”
— Oliver Wendell Holmes
A Self-Saving World
“Nobody can save the world, but any of us can help set in motion a self-saving world.”
— Stewart Brand
Amusing Contradictions
“If one is amused by a contradiction, it is because one supposes its terms to be very far apart.”
— Roland Barthes
