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We are in the process of creating the architecture of international accountability for human rights violations. You need to hold individuals responsible, but there is a big gap if you can't say the machinery of a state is responsible, too.

The artistic part of us all - I think that the easiest way to appreciate this - is through architecture. Architecture is very impressive; the beauty of buildings, temples.

The amount of computing resources put into place with a grid architecture can be enormous. Companies get to add the equivalent of a couple thousands PCs and that added horsepower that they do not have to pay for.

The architecture for 'Paladin' - given that it's at least three books, with the possibility of more - turned out to be bigger than anything I've ever created, with multiple levels of reality, interlocking mysteries and a terabyte of time frame.

The architecture of Thomas Jefferson's Lawn had a big impact on me.

The architecture was beautiful. There's an atmosphere there you just don't get in the United States.

We have too many buildings in this town and not enough architecture. There's a real tendency in this community to want everything to look the same. The Strip is allowed to do anything, but once you get off the Strip, there's very little originality.

We have Victorian houses, Craftsman houses, all kinds of architecture. A lot of people don't realize what a variety we have.

We have numerous investigations into (accessibility at) county facilities that were designed by Architecture Plus.

We have a very open architecture for data warehousing and BI, partly because Oracle Warehouse Builder 10 g works so well with third-party databases. Oracle Warehouse Builder performs the heavy lifting with our ETL processes, and it minimizes costs by delivering data to a variety of end-user tools.

Whole Foods is going to give identity to the neighborhood, ... The New Urbanism: Toward an Architecture of Community.

Microsoft built the architecture that made it (the hole) possible.

When you're in a creative flow with somebody - and I had this back in architecture school - you're just so passionate about what you're doing, and if that other person is just as passionate, you'll be madly in love with them. It's just that thrill of creating.

We had two opportunities; we could draw on the side with nothing on it, turn the thing over and there's this set of designs of, say, the electric circuitry of the school of engineering, and you could draw in amongst all this. So, architecture and cities, it's all there.

The real architecture happens within the works themselves, and that was done by the composer. That's where the real skill is. In putting together a program, you're more a curator, but that's important as well. And then the interpreting of it is where our big job is.

What we can do is try and devise the right architecture for the financial systems of the world which leads to greater stability, more openness and more transparency,

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.

We tried to bring in both the architecture and the wrought-iron. We wanted a look of restrained, quiet opulence.

There are moments when you wish you had had two more rehearsals, but the architecture is there, and the playing is often more than competent.

We didn't want to imitate the architecture that was 100 years old. We wanted something that says it was done in the early part of the 21st century.

We're looking mainly at renovating Webster and Main streets while taking advantage of the historic architecture.

The concept of architecture as analogous to landscape is something that has interested me for a long time.

I am very interested in architecture. I've been asked if I'd ever direct, but me, I'd rather build. It's very similar to directing, because you get to walk among this piece of art, to live in it, be surrounded by it, which is just thrilling.

I love cloisters, which are the architectural equivalent of a theological concept: perfect freedom within set boundaries.

Houses are not haunted. We are haunted, and regardless of the architecture with which we surround ourselves, our ghosts stay with us until we ourselves are ghosts.

Persia is very different from the Arab Middle East in terms of architecture and language. Even though we think of them as one big Middle Eastern area, in truth, Persia's quite distinct.

''Where do architects and designers get their ideas?'' The answer, of course, is mainly from other architects and designers, so is it mere casuistry to distinguish between tradition and plagiarism?

The overall experience Skype provided was superior to other folks because of the underlying architecture and the ability to provide a superior experience.

Chairs are architecture, sofas are bourgeois.

The history of architecture is the history of the struggle for light.

When does a building actually become a built?

The demonstration of SEQ5400 at 3GSM will illustrate the advantage of extending polar architecture across all modes, which will greatly benefit wireless handset manufacturers in their ability to lower the cost, shrink the size and increase the battery life of multi-mode handsets.

XML by itself is not a solution -- it's a key ingredient to enable a richer type of solution, ... What you need is an architecture where you can take XML data and integrate it with various applications -- and that's what we're offering with BizTalk.

We are making Unstructured Information Management Architecture available to the open-source community to encourage innovation and allow analytics software tools from multiple sources to work together and build upon each other.

Postmodernism is a freewheeling, unfettered, and unapologetic pursuit of style.

Architecture belongs to culture, not to civilization.

True architecture exists only where man stands in the center.

Architecture is not merely national but clearly has local ties in that it is rooted in the earth.

It is the task of the architect to give life a gentler structure.

Architecture aims at Eternity

He was of opinion that what we now vulgarly call the Gothick, ought properly and truly be named Saracenick Architecture refined by the Christians.

I started to draw buildings. I called them Proposed Colossal Monuments - they weren't for real, not for actual building. It was more a critique of architecture.

But then architects don't build their own houses.

Art and architecture -- all the arts -- do not have to exist in isolation,

L’architecture est art de suggestion.

In Los Angeles, by the time you're 35, you're older than most of the buildings.

I like the architecture of lingerie.

Home is where you hang your architect.

I am but an architectural composer.

Artists don't make objects. Artists make mythologies.

We optimized the architecture for low-power Class D amplifiers, allowing us to eliminate the large inductor and capacitor from each output trace, which saves four components for each channel. However, if the amplifier is some distance from the speaker, you may still need a small amount of inductance in the form of a ferrite bead.

We liked the architecture of our old neighborhood, and we didn't want to sacrifice that charm for suburbia.

We rolled out the Sun Ray architecture in 2001 and have since lowered our desktop support costs and increased productivity considerably. We continue to support virtual display technology as a way to maximize efficiencies across our organization by improving user performance and decreasing the amount of support time required of IT.

There has been no regular architecture since Sir William Chambers - the public taste corrupted by the Adams, I am obliged to comply with it.

We will continue to invest in whatever the laws of semiconductor physics will allow on a 32-bit architecture for servers and workstations, ... As long as we can deliver benefit and value and meet customer needs, 32-bit processors will be available. We will introduce Cascades (a 32-bit upgrade) at the end of this year and Foster (another 32-bit upgrade) next year, and then we show (on our roadmap) some unnamed bubbles beyond that into 2001.

We're trying to create architecture comparable to a historic site. We're hopeful you'll get the sense of a resort destination.

Cities are the greatest creations of humanity.

Don't look at the superficial success, at the short-term success. Look at the deep spiritual questions that architecture has to answer. Who do you build for? Where? What should you build?

I love antique architecture, so if I have any indulgences, I have owned and renovated and reconstructed a lot of old houses.

Architecture theory is very interesting.

Britain gets the architecture it deserves. We don’t value architecture, we don’t take it seriously, we don’t want to pay for it and the architect isn’t trusted.

Trusted flash has to be flexible in its architecture. We support any DRM, or combination thereof, whether open or proprietary.

We want our music and ideas to be in the forefront, and what we learned permeated our thinking. Notions of film and architecture feed what we see in our minds as we make music.

The building is a special place because of its architecture; But it's people who make it special by participating in it.

Concepts differentiate architecture from mere building...A bicycle shed with a concept is architecture; a cathedral without one is just a building.

Architecture is not so much a knowledge of form, but a form of knowledge.

The fact is that automobiles no longer have a place in the big cities of our time.

We absolutely loved it in Winnipeg. The people were wonderful, the architecture is wonderful,

If proportion is the good breeding of architecture, symmetry, or the answering of one part to another, may be defined as the sanity of decoration.

Angkor is perhaps the greatest of Man's essays in rectangular architecture that has yet been brought to life.

Clearly, if a building is not functionally and technically in order, then it isn't architecture either, it's just a building.

In addressing a task, one almost always has several possible options, sometimes only a few, and they may all be practical and functional. But they lack the aesthetic aspect that raises it to architecture.

I don't see that any buildings should be excluded from the term architecture, as long as they are done properly.

We're making such a big leap with a different architecture that it enables different economics.

What we're seeing is a great deal of customization on country and industry levels. When Microsoft was developing its CRM, it made sure that it was built on a Web services architecture so that it can be easily adapted to specific local needs and requirements. We don't ship an out-of-the-box, property-management application, for instance, but those in real estate using the software can easily add apartment information without adding programming code.

Working off one genius sketch is not the way great architecture should be made.

We're pleased with the solid revenue and earnings per share results Cisco delivered during its second quarter, but also especially pleased with our strong order momentum. This proves our strategy is working in terms of the convergence of voice, video and data along with our balanced approach to our customer segments, core and advanced technologies, business and technology architecture and key geographic theaters.

We're focusing on particular works films, books, pieces of music, architecture that deserve the name 'icon' and have this influence on our culture. Everybody knows those things, but almost because they're icons, people don't look below the fact of them.

The point is that analytical designs are not to be decided on their convenience to the user or necessarily their readability or what psychologists or decorators think about them; rather, design architectures should be decided on how the architecture assists analytical thinking about evidence.

There are some facilities that Architecture Plus, and Jim Woodrum in particular, drew that are not ergonomically designed to run as efficiently as others,

We've already developed the upgrade architecture and will begin working with a customer advisory board later this year to help us determine the best ways to automate and ease the upgrade process. A key priority is for us to make the upgrade as automated as possible, and to reduce cost and downtime.

With these results we've proved that the Fabric 7 architecture enables a level of scalability and performance on x86 platforms that easily competes with more expensive, proprietary systems that have traditionally dominated the midrange and high-end of the server market.

VeriSign is uniquely positioned to provide the scalable, secure infrastructure that the blogosphere needs. Purchasing the ping server architecture of Weblogs.com enables VeriSign to continue supporting the vast numbers of Internet communications and improve the experience of millions of Internet users.

With the ongoing globalization of GM's product development organization, and the implementation of our global architecture strategy, Bob felt he needed to devote his efforts to product development full time, and I agreed, ... Bob's legacy at GM will be in our future cars and trucks. It makes sense for him to devote his full energies to that critical task.

Each class has a different approach. In the furniture class, they will walk through a local furniture store to learn about antique furnishings. The architecture class focuses on Black Belt architecture.

Edith was at the forefront of the move to modernist design that influenced architecture and furniture as well as ceramics.

Currently, I'm working with a naval architecture team, and they're trying to determine whether a wooden boat this size could actually float.

Warner is taking advantage of the P2P architecture, which is a faster, more efficient method of distributing content that requires less bandwidth than traditional download services.

Washington, D.C., has everything that Rome, Paris and London have in the way of great architecture - great power bases. Washington has obelisks and pyramids and underground tunnels and great art and a whole shadow world that we really don't see.

What operators should be doing ?- and what the standards bodies working in this area are encouraging them to do ?- is to create a policy architecture : a unified framework that embraces all the layers of policy needed in their organization.

What OPES is trying to do is standardize one of the plugs that fits into the overall Web architecture.

At the core of these plans is 64 bit. We showed the world you didn't need a different architecture for 64 bit.

The transition to high-definition content demands an architecture for digital content delivery that is robust, high-performance and cost-effective. With today's announcements, Silicon Image continues to drive the architecture and standards that will define the consumer electronics and PC markets of tomorrow.

We see this expanded initiative as a way of working together with other leading suppliers and service providers to define the standards and architecture that will enable the infrastructure for the global network economy of the future.

As there hasn't been any new modern architecture built in the historic center of Rome since Mussolini's time I think the Ara Pacis Museum became a lightening rod for issues that were not directly related to the building itself.

The technology industry is unique in being able to effect social, political and economic progress on a global basis. We take that responsibility, and our partners in innovation around the world, very seriously -- that's why we're proud to provide the computing power needed for Architecture for Humanity to help improve living conditions for so many people.

These different firmware environments will separate OS X and Windows environments almost as effectively as instruction set architecture did when Macintosh software ran only on PowerPC chips.

The threats to our architecture have surpassed the giant ape. Airplanes with jet fuel were far more dangerous than any primate, however big.

The starting point for the master bedroom was the architecture. We reorganized the whole space, and we knew that we were going to paint the woodwork in that room pink, which is quite unusual, but if you go back to the 18th century, they actually did that.

There are 3,000 members of the media here this week. They're looking for interesting stories, ... Some are writing about New Orleans as a family destination. The Food Network is here right now shooting a week-long series on cuisine. House and Garden television is talking about architecture. A news crew from Japan, while covering the football game, is talking about the birthplace of jazz. This all allows New Orleans to show off all of its attributes.