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I began to think, The endowment has had a bad reputation in the last few years, and that's unfair. ↗

— Jane Alexander

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Drawings help people to work out intricate relationships between parts. ↗

— Christopher Alexander

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The greatest part of the job was... that was for nine years it was a pleasure to go to work. ↗

— Jason Alexander

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I don't know how one actually would define obscenity. I'm sure the definition is different according to the age one is living in. ↗

— Jane Alexander

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It is not possible to make great buildings, or great towns, beautiful places, places where you feel yourself, places where you feel alive, except by following this way. And, as you will see, this way will lead anyone who looks for it to buildings which are themselves as ancient in their form, as the trees and hills, and as our faces are. ↗

— Christopher Alexander

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Speaking as a builder, if you start something, you must have a vision of the thing which arises from your instinct about preserving and enhancing what is there. ↗

— Christopher Alexander

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I had no choice in the decision to make myself available. I was not always doing things I wanted to do. ↗

— Namie Amuro

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This is a fundamental view of the world. It says that when you build a thing you cannot merely build that thing in isolation, but must repair the world around it, and within it, so that the larger world at that one place becomes more coherent, and more whole; and the thing which you make takes its place in the web of nature, as you make it. ↗

— Christopher Alexander

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We define organic order as the kind of order that is achieved when there is a perfect balance between the needs of the parts, and the needs of the whole. ↗

— Christopher Alexander

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I would work with any one of them again in a heartbeat because it was joyous and incredibly easy. ↗

— Jason Alexander

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