#chi

Italy is full of historical buildings. And Europe holds a great history of philosophy from Greece until today. I read all those books and see these buildings, and I think of where I stand when I design my architecture. ↗

— Tadao Ando

#books #buildings #design #europe #full

Japanese traditional architecture is created based on these conditions. This is the reason you have a very high degree of connection between the outside and inside in architecture. ↗

— Tadao Ando

#based #between #conditions #connection #created

Spiritual space is lost in gaining convenience. I saw the need to create a mixture of Japanese spiritual culture and modern western architecture. ↗

— Tadao Ando

#convenience #create #culture #gaining #i

The speed of change makes you wonder what will become of architecture. ↗

— Tadao Ando

#become #change #makes #speed #will

When you're dealing with machines or anything that you build, it either works or it doesn't, no matter how good of a salesman you are. ↗

— Marc Andreessen

#build #dealing #either #good #how

If the Net becomes the center of the universe, which is what seems to be happening, then the dizzying array of machines that will be plugged into it will virtually guarantee that the specifics of which chip and which operating system you've got will be irrelevant. ↗

— Marc Andreessen

#becomes #center #chip #dizzying #got

I play with my grandchildren. I tend to my garden, which I love. Of course, I love to read, and family is really what it's all about. ↗

— Julie Andrews

#course #family #garden #grandchildren #i

Chance, my dear, is the sovereign deity in child-bearing. ↗

— Honore de Balzac

#child-bearing #dear #deity #sovereign

History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived again. ↗

— Maya Angelou

#cannot #courage #despite #faced #history

I've never in my life said I didn't want to have children. I did and I do and I will! ↗