Architect Quotations | Page 2

We have an incredible opportunity...to revolutionize the Internet user experience. We need to deliver our next generation services platform in order to do that. And we need Bill Gates 100 percent focused on helping architect that.

You alone know Your mystery; You are the Perfect Architect of Destiny. I am a helpless orphan - please keep me under Your Protection and save me.

When the architect suggested a balcony we thought he was mad. I thought we'd never use it but I've seen us on the balcony in the middle of winter, with not a gust of wind, admiring the view. It's amazing how often we've actually used it.

Who I am as an architect and the history of my work - that's clear to anybody who hires me. But I come in literally with nothing in my brain about what the building will look like.

We must learn to understand humanity better so that we can create an environment that is more beneficial to people, more rewarding, more pleasant to experience.

Well, the whole story is in the book, but the short answer is that I was the first information architect in an organization that was traditionally design-oriented, and I felt I needed a tool to help me gain the trust and support of my colleagues.

I am increasingly an architect of self. I am free to will and choose. I can, through accepting my individuality... become more of my uniqueness, more of my potentiality.

The process works best if the architect is able to engage the client and draw out all the important parameters in terms of cost and design.

What we do is architect the Internet, and the Internet is still a pretty rollicking place. We describe different functions that get done and principles by which they work, which is a different way to do architecture.

Many working families are both prisoners and architects of the time bind in which they find themselves.

Cities have the capability of providing something for everybody, only because, and only when, they are created by everybody.

Architects thrive after massive urban disasters. The abject collapse of East Berlin gave us the only city in Europe with a mighty host of Postmodern skyscrapers.

Musicians are the architects of heaven.

We sent to San Francisco for an architect designer. It cost us a lot of money for that guy. But, out here it's worth it.

You know, it is life that is right and the architect who is wrong.

Whether it catches up to what the world sees or record companies or radio or everybody wants - you can't be the architect of that.

You are the architect of your own loneliness.

But then architects don't build their own houses.

The decisions of our past are the architects of our present.

All clients think that they are architects.

There have been thousands of dollars wasted in blueprints and plans because some neophyte developer hired an architect who spent tons of time and money drawing up plans (that were ultimately rejected).

There has to be a lot of communication between the contractor, the architect and the owner. If not, you end up with a lot of unhappy people.

Form follows function, as the architects say. With words and pictures, you can do just about anything.

I used to be an architect, so I have a series I am working on with USA Network that I created and am co-writing.

Yes, Garnett Grey was an Architect. Were a psychoanalyst to approach him from behind, tap his shoulder, and say 'Humanity,' Garrett'd spin and respond, without hesitation, 'Solvable'.

Women are the architects of society

With a painter or a sculptor, one cannot begin to alter his works, but an architect has to put up with anything, because he makes utility objects - the building is there to be used, and times change.

Wes Stow was a champion of Republicanism. He was the architect of the Republican majority in Citrus County.

The grand sanctuary, built in 1964, was designed by Minoru Yamasaki, architect of the World Trade Center,

The role of the architect as artist is an ancient one, but it was de-emphasized with the rise of modernism, which rejected the drawing-based Beaux-Arts tradition in favor of a more technocratic approach.

We already have architect drawings and are in the process of raising $8 to $10 million to make the expansion happen.

To see the project develop and take on the shape made you understand what the architect was trying to achieve, ... When the construction fence came down and people saw the new sidewalks, the lawn and all the white rose bushes it brought in a totally new look.

Bruce Goff was an eclectic mid-century architect who did kind of oddball things.

Two of my theatres are 1930s and the other five are by Sprague, the greatest Edwardian architect of the lot. They've needed a lot of work doing to them but they were built very well.

But often it's doubtful whether the logic of the work itself and the words used to describe it really have anything to do with each other.

Although the private cannot be substantiated by common logic, you have to find a workable logic in which to argue on behalf of the work.

A lot of people call me the architect of rock & roll. I don't call myself that, but I believe it's true.

Ted is the right man for the job. He's the architect of the deal and he knows the CBA inside-out. I think this just a minority group of disgruntled players.

Adequate information about the existing environment and about the types of place that it is desirable to make cannot be kept inside one brain.

A doctor can bury his mistakes, but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.

A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his client to plant vines.

In any New Zealand town, even small country towns, you will find at least one Art Deco house. These were not built by intellectuals using an avant-garde architect as you might have found in the United States. These were built by builders using handbooks for young married couples who didn't have any intellectual pretensions at all.

I like building and making things. I, perhaps, would like to try my hand at directing one day. Sometimes I fancy myself as an architect - but I think I might need to go back to school for that.

I must refute the implication ... that a landscape architect is a glorified gardener. A landscape architect -- unlike a landscape designer, nurseryman or gardener -- must complete a rigorous education from an accredited university program.

I have six children, and we live in a riverbed. If it gets really bad, we'll go to the church and see what the architect of the world has in store for us.

Inspired by the project's unique blending of commercial and cultural interests, the goal was to create an iconic, yet pragmatic design.

In this business, you don't have to be an architect or an engineer or a brick layer. But you have to understand how the money flows. That you can only understand if you're on the site.

If you're not 100 per cent familiar with the territory, this can be a very good idea. An architect or a surveyor will know the industry, and be able to talk the same language as the builders. Even if it's 10 per cent of the total cost of the project, it can be money extremely well spent when it comes to securing your own peace of mind.

I'm gonna do it MY way! The problem with cooking is too many rules. You don't have to have perfect squares. Who cares, you know? Like we got some architect judging us at breakfast!

Stone was the most prominent architect in America, and he decided that the modernist movement in architecture -- in other words, the parade of glass boxes that marched across America -- had become exhausted, not worth pursuing anymore,

The better you know how to build, the better architect you will be.

The biggest thing is the architect didn't have a contractor involved on the project from the beginning. That would have made things go by quicker.

Absolutely we will rebuild. We're working with an architect and we think the facilities we rebuild will serve the community even better than before.

The interesting thing about Oberlin College as it differs from other more urban schools or universities is that it is a walking campus.

It's been hard to hand over the working design of Freedom Tower to another architect - although we're still a part of the team, and so is Larry.

(City officials) met with the builder and the architect, and we reviewed the issues that were brought to our attention, ... Both the builder and the architect are very cooperative in looking at these problems and taking care of them. I'm confident that that will happen.

I realized that I loved using computers to create something, but being an architect just wasn't going to keep me interested. The idea of a life spent obsessing over bathroom details for an Upper East Side penthouse was pretty depressing.

If there is any programming language architect on the planet who has the experience and insight to pull this off, he'd be on short list.

I haven't heard a developer or an architect that is saying, 'Well, these things are no longer valid or can't be done anymore,'

But I don't see why we have to take a central hall, for instance, and use in it a sculpture or painting. I think it detracts, somehow.

For the best building and planting...the architect and gardener must have some knowledge of each other's business, and each must regard with feelings of kindly reverence the unknown domains of the other's higher knowledge.

I look at the universe and I know there's an architect.

GARGOYLE, n. A rain-spout projecting from the eaves of mediaeval buildings, commonly fashioned into a grotesque caricature of some personal enemy of the architect or owner of the building. This was especially the case in churches and ecclesiastical structures generally, in which the gargoyles presented a perfect rogues' gallery of local heretics and controversialists. Sometimes when a new dean and chapter were installed the old gargoyles were removed and others substituted having a closer relation to the private animosities of the new incumbents.

It's amazing how you meet people through other people. I knew a racecar driver, Stefan Johansson, who was very hot. He introduced me to Jean Todt. He introduced me to a French doctor. He introduced me to a French architect who redid the Louvre with I.M. Pei. He introduced me to Daniel Boulud.

In my life as an architect, I found that the single thing which inhibits young professionals, new students most severely, is their acceptance of standards that are too low.

Architects in the past have tended to concentrate their attention on the building as a static object. I believe dynamics are more important: the dynamics of people, their interaction with spaces and environmental condition.

You want to be working so closely with an architect so that no number is a surprise.

I have high aspirations. I want to be an architect.

Struggle is the architect of the soul.

Some are born to invent, others to embellish; but the gilder attracts more attention than the architect.

We have already considered with disfavour the possibility of the universe having been planned by a biologist or an engineer; from the intrinsic evidence of his creation, the Great Architect of the Universe now begins to appear as a pure mathematician.

It is through accomplishment that man makes his contribution and contribution is life's greatest reward.

It's not like throwing a bone to the far right, it's like throwing a carcass, ... He's voted for school vouchers, against affirmative action, against abortion. He has voted for very punitive juvenile justice legislation. He has voted for a constitutional amendment (banning) flag desecration. He is the architect of efforts to give federal funding to religiously controlled institutions -- he doesn't seem to have much regard for separation of church and state.

As an architect I've always believed that what can make a domestic setting truly home is the infusion of a cultural dimension.

We hired the same architect specifically because they were doing the Cannery project, and the hope was that this project would link Monterey Street to the Cannery District. The city really felt strongly that linking the areas is really important - it will bring all those residents and workers downtown.

We found these issues and we made them public, so I don't know what kind of cover-up others are talking about, ... And in a Congressional hearing the principal architect of the e-mails testified under oath that he falsified no information (about the mountain or its safety).

However, India is a democracy and they deeply believe in democracy and we feel that it would not be good to overwhelm them with propaganda.

Herb Brooks is quite simply one of the greatest hockey coaches who ever lived. He is the architect of the most famous achievement in American hockey history, and we are extremely pleased to learn that he will be inducted into the U.S. Olympic Hall of Fame.

You members of this Conference are to be the architects of the better world. In your hands rests our future.

Being in construction my whole life - I was trained as an architect - I always had to work with guys. And I always did my homework and then challenged them to figure it out faster than me. They don't want to be shown up by a woman.

I have met a lot of the people who were stiffed by you and your businesses, Donald [Trump]. I've met dishwashers, painters, architects, glass installers, marble installers, drapery installers, like my dad was, who you refused to pay when they finished the work that you asked them to do.

A composer is not only an architect but also an inventor, and he should not build houses in which he cannot live.

Abusers are engineers and architects and janitors and police officers and any other walk of life. There's not a job or profession that is exempt.

Inconsistency itself breeds vitality.

The thing is, I hate the celebrity architect thing. I just do my work.

The architect Borromini's Quattro Fontane, a little church in Rome, is one of the most beautiful rooms in history.

Those who say only artists and architects can create are the ones who are elitist.

Artists dismiss me as an architect, so I'm not in their box, and architects dismiss me as an artist, so I'm not in their box.

Computers allow architects to remain parental instead of being marginalized by the contractors and managers.

Each new situation requires a new architecture.

My affection for CinemaScope initially was my affection for the horizontal line as I learned it from having been apprenticed to an architect who was someone named Frank Lloyd Wright.

Technology proposes itself as the architect of our intimacies.

The marvelous pharmacy that was designed by nature and placed into our being by the universal architect produces most of the medicines we need.

If you weren’t an optimist, it would be impossible to be an architect.

I am the innovator. I am the originator. I am the emancipator. I am the architect of rock 'n' roll!

The lawgiver ought to be gentle, lenient and humane. The lawgiver ought to be a skilled architect who raises his building on the foundation of self-love, and the interest of all ought to be the product of the interests of each.

The Lord s Name is my immortal, unfathomable, imperishable Creator Lord, the Architect of Destiny.

No stream rises higher than its source

If you wisely invest in beauty, it will remain with you all the days of your life.

I go to nature every day for inspiration in the day's work.