Top 1200 Information Architecture Quotes & Sayings - Page 19

I think that there are three incredible brands in the news and information space. I think ESPN owns sports; I think the Weather Channel owns weather, and I want CNN to own news and information in the global digital video space.

The purpose of construction is TO MAKE THINGS HOLD TOGETHER; of architecture TO MOVE US.

I have found among my papers a sheet . . . in which I call architecture frozen music.

Istanbul is inspiring because it has its own code of architecture, literature, poetry, music.

While doing my architecture from the Parsons School of Design, I also did theatre.

I think the artistic side of architecture was natural to me. My mother was an artist and a poet.

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

The Fire Department has traditionally considered architecture a priority only when it’s burning down.

Architecture is basically a container of something. I hope they will enjoy not so much the teacup, but the tea.

Information is power. If you have information about the whole planet you have power over the whole planet. By knowing what people do in Germany they, of course, have power over them.

We are hurtling back into a Soviet abyss, into an information vacuum that spells death from our own ignorance. All we have left is the internet, where information is still freely available. For the rest, if you want to go on working as a journalist, it's total servility to Putin. Otherwise, it can be death, the bullet, poison, or trial -whatever our special services, Putin's guard dogs, see fit.

When I moved to Switzerland to study at ETH Zurich I became fascinated by Swiss architecture.

What really interests me, on a deeper level, is how our information is coming to us in some kind of messed up way that is making us idiotic. I don't think we've become more idiotic than we always were, but I think the information transfer is funky. The shorthand of it is that social media is making us mentally insane.

I would like my architecture to inspire people to use their own resources, to move into the future.

Architecture is a hazardous mixture of omnipotence and impotence. It is by definition a c h a o t i c a d v e n t u r e... In other words, the utopian enterprise.

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

Never get to the point where you will be ashamed to ask anybody for information. The ignorant man will always be ignorant if he fears that by asking another for information he will display ignorance. Better once display your ignorance of a certain subject than always know nothing of it.

...We then examine a particular coding system in DNA and discover that UI [universal information] is conveyed within the genes. Using this DNA evidence and scientific laws governing UI as premises, we are able to develop sound, logical deductions. This leads us to the following conclusion: the God of the Bible exists and He is responsible for originating and embedding Universal Information into biological life.

I don't see that any buildings should be excluded from the term architecture, as long as they are done properly.

From Architecture down to the Zodiac, every science worthy of the name was imported by the Greeks

People have now been absorbing only that they agree with. You know, part of it is if you're liberal, you consume liberal information. If you're a conservative, you consume conservative information. And there's a certain stridency in both that you know everything, and if somebody doesn't agree with you, you think they don't know what they're talking about, and you become intolerant.

I view the JVM as just another architecture that Perl ought to be ported to. (That, and the Underwood typewriter...)

I don't really get into architecture in the hotel room. But maybe a little Feng Shui here and there.

By the unification of architecture, sculpture and painting a new plastic reality will be created.

Architecture is about ideas in the first place. You don't get to design until you have an idea.

In fact, it will be very easy to climb the building because of its shape and architecture.

I think some people think that writers read and read and read, get the information, and then write. That's not how it works. Often, you write yourself into a dark place where you don't know what you need to know, so you go get the information.

Open-source code is extremely well-adapted to service-oriented architecture.

I do speak Mandarin, and I also relate to the hunger that China has for culture and architecture and style.

There is a powerful need for symbolism, and that means the architecture must have something that appeals to the human heart. There is a powerful need for symbolism, and that means the architecture must have something that appeals to the human heart

I got a degree in architecture for the educational experience but in terms of career, everything is cinema.

Trying to describe something musical is like dancing to architecture, it's really difficult.

I experienced direct telepathy with other people, and during one such incident, I I received a channelling of cosmic information from some being in another realm. It came directly through a friend who was tripping on acid, and as he began speaking stream-of-consciousness to me and my girlfriend - and both of us were very stoned on grass - his words conveyed cosmic instructions and information we all three knew to be profoundly important and meaningful.

If Nature had been comfortable, mankind would never have invented architecture.

The dialogue of architecture has been centered too long around the idea of truth.

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

Teachers are not supposed to be repositories of information which they dish out. That is from an age when there were no other repositories of information, other than books or teachers, neither of which were portable. A lot of my big task is retraining these teachers.

People are much more likely to act on their self-percepts of efficacy inferred from many sources of information rather than rely primarily on visceral cues. This is not surprising because self knowledge based on information about one's coping skills, past accomplishments, and social comparison is considerably more indicative of capability than the indefinite stirrings of the viscera

Architecture is frozen music. [Ger., Die Backunst ist eine erstarrte Musik.]

I would answer with the words of the Stasi alumnus Wolfgang Schmidt, who was asked that question: "What about these Americans who say, I have nothing to hide?" And he said, and I quote: "This is very naïve. This is the reason that the government collects the information in the first place to use against you. The only way to prevent that is to prevent the information from being collected in the first place." End quote.

My hope is that light, flexible architecture might bring about a new and open society.

London is one of the most civilised places in the world for the procedure of making architecture and urban design.

The logic of Palladian architecture presented an aesthetic formula which could be applied universally.

I love architecture, but I learned early on that architects just don't make a lot of money.

Architecture is about the understanding of the world and turning it into a more meaningful and humane place.

I search for surprise in my architecture. A work of art should cause the emotion of newness.

A dress is a piece of ephemeral architecture, designed to enhance the proportions of the female body.

My favorite piece of information is that Branwell Brontë, brother of Emily and Charlotte, died standing up leaning against a mantelpiece, in order to prove it could be done. This is not quite true, in fact. My absolute favorite piece of information is the fact that young sloths are so inept that they frequently grab their own arms and legs instead of tree limbs, and fall out of trees.

I suppose I'm trying to build an architecture that's as timeless as possible, although we're all creatures of our age.

I think of architecture as language, and I look within the intra-communication between architects.

Architecture is the story of how we see ourselves. It is the architect's job to service everyday life.

We see it in attempts on Capitol Hill to impose gag rules on rules on doctors on what they can say to their patients about family planning. And we certainly see it now with an effort by the government to tap our phones; invade our medical records, credit information, library records and the most sensitive personal information in the name of national security.

Chinese architecture has a complete organic structure; it contains both sensibility and purpose.

In architecture, Palladio is the game. It means hard thought all through - if it is labored, it fails.

Architecture is a negotiated art, and it's highly political, and if you want to make buildings, there is diplomacy required.

Working off one genius sketch is not the way great architecture should be made.

Drawing architecture is a "schizoid" act: it involves reducing the world to a piece of paper.

Japanese architecture is traditionally based on wooden structures that need renovating on a regular basis.

The American attitude towards efficiency and execution should always underlie architecture.

The ancient Romans built their greatest masterpieces of architecture, their amphitheaters, for wild beasts to fight in.