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Nowadays, the process of growth and development almost never seems to manage to create this subtle balance between the importance of the individual parts, and the coherence of the environment as a whole. One or the other always dominates. ↗

— Christopher Alexander

#always #balance #between #coherence #create

Fiction is sort of a way to set the record straight, and let people at least believe that justice can be achieved and the right outcomes can occur. ↗

— David Baldacci

#believe #fiction #justice #least #occur

But in practice master plans fail - because they create totalitarian order, not organic order. They are too rigid; they cannot easily adapt to the natural and unpredictable changes that inevitably arise in the life of a community. ↗

— Christopher Alexander

#arise #because #cannot #changes #community

Everyone is aware that most of the built environment today lacks a natural order, an order which presents itself very strongly in places that were built centuries ago. ↗

— Christopher Alexander

#aware #built #centuries #environment #everyone

Once you understand this way, you will be able to make your room alive; you will be able to design a house together with your family; a garden for your children; places where you can work; beautiful terraces where you can sit and dream. ↗

— Christopher Alexander

#alive #beautiful #children #design #dream

Listeners will wonder what an Englishman is doing on the German radio tonight. You can imagine that before taking this step I hoped that someone better qualified than me would come forward. ↗

— John Amery

#better #come #doing #englishman #forward

The buildings that I build very often have a dreamlike reality. I don't mean by that they have a fantasy quality at all, in fact quite the reverse. They contain in some degree the ingredients that give dreams their power... stuff that's very close to us. ↗

— Christopher Alexander

#buildings #close #contain #degree #dreams

There is one timeless way of building. It is a thousand years old, and the same today as it has ever been. The great traditional buildings of the past, the villages and tents and temples in which man feels at home, have always been made by people who were very close to the center of this way. ↗

— Christopher Alexander

#been #building #buildings #center #close

To work our way towards a shared language once again, we must first learn how to discover patterns which are deep, and capable of generating life. ↗

— Christopher Alexander

#capable #deep #discover #first #generating

When you make something, cleaning it out of structural debris is one of the most vital things you do. ↗

— Christopher Alexander

#debris #make #most #out #something