#ding

After World War II great strides were made in modern Japanese architecture, not only in advanced technology, allowing earthquake resistant tall buildings, but expressing and infusing characteristics of traditional Japanese architecture in modern buildings. ↗

— Harry Seidler

#advanced technology #after #allowing #architecture #buildings

From the early days of European migration to America, in the 17th Century, the prototype of buildings was based on English precedent, even if mostly translated into the locally available material in abundance: timber. ↗

— Harry Seidler

#america #available #based #buildings #century

When the Nobel award came my way, it also gave me an opportunity to do something immediate and practical about my old obsessions, including literacy, basic health care and gender equity, aimed specifically at India and Bangladesh. ↗

— Amartya Sen

#aimed #also #award #bangladesh #basic

Finding out that I was gay when I was older was a shock and a disappointment. ↗

— Maurice Sendak

#finding #gay #i #older #out

There's so much more to a book than just the reading. ↗

— Maurice Sendak

#just #more #much #reading #than

What the president is doing is flooding the job market with illegal immigrants that he is giving temporary work permits to. Not fair. ↗

— Jim Sensenbrenner

#fair #flooding #giving #illegal #illegal immigrants

Performance capture is a technology, not a genre; it's just another way of recording an actor's performance. ↗

— Andy Serkis

#another #another way #capture #genre #just

Do not be surprised if I adore as God what you called humanity, since you talked of humanity as if it was empty of spirit and you think in the flesh according to the flesh. ↗

— Michael Servetus

#adore #called #empty #flesh #god

Avoid extremes: be moderate In saving and in spending; An equable and easy gait Will win an easy ending. ↗

— Robert W. Service

#easy #ending #equable #extremes #gait

It's the steady, quiet, plodding ones who win in the lifelong race. ↗

— Robert W. Service

#ones #plodding #quiet #race #steady