Top 1200 Information Architecture Quotes & Sayings - Page 18

I would have liked maybe to be in architecture or painting, something connected to the fine arts.

[Even the mechanism can be endowed with an image. Thus] the thermostat has an image of the outside world in the shape of information regarding its temperature. It has also a value system in the sense of the ideal temperature at which it is set. Its behavior is directed towards the receipt of information which will bring its image and its value systems together.

Architecture doesn't come from theory. You don't think your way through a building.

If you are hungry for food, you are prepared to hunt high and low for it. If you are hungry for information it is the same. Information is all around us, now more than ever before in human history. You barely have to stir or incommode yourself to find things out. The only reason people do not know much is because they do not care to know. They are incurious. Incuriosity is the oddest and most foolish failing there is.

Broadly speaking, the problems with the Espionage Act are that it is hopelessly broad. And we tend to use the Espionage Act - we think about the Espionage Act as forbidding disclosures of classified information. That's not really what the statute says. What the statute talks about is information related to the national defense.

In architecture and interiors, as well as fashion, there is an interaction that is both functional and aesthetic.

It is worth reminding that being president is a tough job for anybody, and particularly so in the information age. There's such a glut of information. Anything a president says or does is picked up on the Internet or the 24/7 news media and criticized almost instantly. Leaders persuade through their words and as such their words need to be measured and well chosen. It is a tough job.

Architecture starts when you carefully put two bricks together. There it begins.

The only job that was ever of interest to me other than filmmaking is architecture.

Throughout the ages it has always been possible to point to good and bad architecture.

Architecture is measured against the past, you build in the present, and try to imagine the future.

Painting can never show her nose in company with architecture but to have it snubbed.

People kind of tend to mystify design and architecture by suggesting you need to train.

Today, architecture is invention. It isn't enough to just be rational - It must also be beautiful.

Architecture is a special kind of career that showcases the accumulations of culture, time, and history.

It isn't citizens, or Congress, who decide how our information network regulates itself. We don't get to decide how information companies collect data, and we don't get to decide how transparent they should be. The tech companies do that all by themselves.

Architecture must concern itself continually with the socially beneficial distortion of the environment.

The purpose of architecture is to create an atmosphere in which man can live, work, and enjoy.

Madam de Stael pronounced architecture to be frozen music; so is statuary crystalized spirituality.

I love Sutton House in Clapton, a beautiful example of Tudor architecture.

In a hunting society, children play with bows and arrows. In an information society, children play with information

Architecture has a strong link with the movies in terms of time progression, sequencing, framing, all of that.

For architecture, nature provides only indications and analogies, not models to imitate.

Architecture tends to consume everything else, it has become one's entire life.

There is one way that architecture is superior to sculpture, and that is scale. You can walk into a building and have it all around you.

It was the drawing that led me to architecture, the search for light and astonishing forms.

Architecture is not an inspirational business, it's a rational procedure to do sensible and hopefully beautiful things; that's all.

The UN stopped using Chalabi's information as a basis for conducting inspections once the tenuous nature of his sources and his dubious motivations became clear. Unfortunately, the same cannot be said for the mainstream US media, which give prominent coverage to sources of information that, had they not been related to Hussein's Iraq, would normally be immediately dismissed.

Remember this, and remember this well: when someone is telling the TRUTH and exposing information that is meant to be hidden from the masses, the side that is being attacked and accused will use all their resources and associations to try to discredit and discount the professional and moral character of the person revealing the threatening information. They will do everything to make that person look smaller than they really are.

When we project the specific organization of the human body into the space outside it, then we have architecture.

I think that when people read fiction, they're really reading for wisdom. I am. That's what most of us really love. If we read a novel that rocks our world, it's because there's something in it that we didn't know already. Not just information but really wisdom - sort of what to do with our information. And wisdom comes from experience.

In order to preserve a balance, while we aren't planning to build a missile defence of our own, as it's very expensive and its efficiency is not quite clear yet, we have to develop offensive strike systems. They [U.S.] should give us all the information about the missile defence, and we will be ready then to provide some information about offensive weapons.

I want to explore my design philosophy in different mediums, and I'm very interested in architecture.

The information contained in an English sentence or computer software does not derive from the chemistry of the ink or the physics of magnetism, but from a source extrinsic to physics and chemistry altogether. Indeed, in both cases, the message transcends the properties of the medium. The information in DNA also transcends the properties of its material medium.

I think we're more relevant than ever because it is such a noisy environment out there. What's a journalist now? It's anybody with a way to get information out and you're sitting there with your smartphone in front of you. That's what we're up against now. There's a lot of unfiltered information. Some of it is accurate, some of it way off base. We're that safe port in the storm.

The Egyptian contribution to architecture was more concerned with remembering the dead than the living.

The architecture of war and violence is now matched by a barrage of goods parading as fashion.

I love food, and my girlfriend comes from an architecture background, so we might open up a restaurant.

The Frank Matcham theaters in the West End in particular are incredible pieces of architecture.

You have to accept as an architect to be exposed to criticism. Architecture should not rely on full harmony.

Most of what you see in architecture are watered-down ideas of sculptors who have come before.

The imperial vastness of late Roman architecture was made possible by the invention of concrete.

When I went to school at Emerson, I was completely charmed living there and loved the architecture of the Back Bay.

I don't see any difference between architecture and engineering. It's the same profession.

Architecture is the learned game, correct and magnificent, of forms assembled in the light.

There are a great many things about architecture that are hidden from the untrained eye.

We live in a cluttered culture, a culture of information in which even our computers can't tell us what's worth knowing and what is merely cultural scrap. In such a society, we don't have the experience of contemplative space, of the time or mood to engage a book of poetry or even read a novel. Who can achieve the unconscious-conscious state of the reader when everything is stimulation, everything is movement and information?

Architecture depends on its time. It is the crystallization of its inner structure, the slow unfolding of its form.

Great architecture has only two natural enemies: water and stupid men.

Every day of your life, you have information that enters your head, and that information informs your understanding of things, or shifts it, or changes it, or deepens it, or confuses you. Every day, every moment of every day - it's like this thing that happens.

A languid janitor bears His lantern through colonnades And the architecture swoons.

The concept of architecture as analogous to landscape is something that has interested me for a long time.

At a basic level venture capitalists are arbitrageurs: they have access to more information than those with the capital, and access to more capital than those with information, and they profit by exploiting the mismatch.

My father saw that there is no way we can stay in the G-20 and grow with this level of corruption. In early 2015, one of his first orders to his team was to collect all the information about corruption - at the top. This team worked for two years until they collected the most accurate information, and then they came up with about 200 names.

It is a question of building which is at the root of the social unrest of today: architecture or revolution.

When I see architecture that moves me, I hear music in my inner ear

Architecture cannot be understood without some knowledge of the society it serves.

I love the South Bank: every era of architecture is there, and you can stop, look, and listen.

Data is not information, information is not knowledge, knowledge is not understanding, understanding is not wisdom.

Architecture depends on facts, but its real field of activity lies in the realm of the significance.