Building Quotes - Page 19

• Uber is a $3.5 billion lesson in building for how the world *should* work instead of optimizing for how the world *does* work

  Aaron Levie

  Uber, Doe, World

  Twitter post from Aug 23, 2013

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• The door handle is the handshake of the building.

  Juhani Pallasmaa

  Doors, Handshake, Handle

  Juhani Pallasmaa (2012). “The Eyes of the Skin: Architecture and the Senses”, p.62, John Wiley & Sons

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• The students who work with me believe in science in service of society, not science in service of career building.

  Donald Sadoway

  Believe, Careers, Students

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• No matter how hard life is, you are your own architecture. If you give up then there’s no one that can help you, but if you want to keep building your future, then no one can stop you either.

  Jaejoong

  Giving Up, Hard Life, Matter

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• I'm trying to get some building work done at the moment, quite seriously. Be careful.

  Adrian Chiles

  Trying, Done, Moments

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• We tell our portfolio companies that it's really important to be metrics-driven and to track their conversions. It goes back to building that scalable sales model.

  Devon McDonald

  Track, Important, Metrics

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• The bottom line for mathematicians is that the architecture has to be right. In all the mathematics that I did, the essential point was to find the right architecture. It's like building a bridge. Once the main lines of the structure are right, then the details miraculously fit. The problem is the overall design.

  Freeman Dyson

  Math, Bridges, Design

  "Freeman Dyson: Mathematician, Physicist, and Writer". The College Mathematics Journal Interview with Donald J. Albers, January 1994.

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• Let every Christian, as much as in him lies, engage himself openly and publicly, before all the World, in some mental pursuit for the Building up of Jerusalem.

  William Blake

  Christian, Lying, Building Up

  William Blake, Morton D. Paley (1998). “Jerusalem: The Emanation of the Giant Albion”, p.258, Princeton University Press

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• They really don't know where the future lies. If developers decide to build a high-rise where the McCormick building is, they'd have nowhere to go.

  Jose Gonzalez

  Lying, Deceit, Nowhere To Go

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• I discovered that resolution of conflict comes from people being able to express their own feelings and their own needs in the face of another. Making agreements and setting goals without building upon the feelings of the parties involved is empty, because it does not consider the vulnerabilities of our own humanity.

  Peter Block

  Leadership, Party, Agreement

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• Be suspicious of any work that is not building product or getting customers. It's easy to get sucked into an infrastructure rewrite death spiral.

  Sam Altman

  Easy, Spirals, Infrastructure

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• Your biggest challenge will be building a great team.

  John Doerr

  Team, Challenges, Great Team

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• It may be easier than ever to start a product, but building a company is just as hard as its ever been.

  Sarah Lacy

  May, Easier, Company

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• Whatever future you're building, don't try to program everything.

  Pierre Omidyar

  Trying, Program

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• I just have never seen anyone build anything significant in any field without having a deep and detailed sense of what they are building on.

  Pat Metheny

  Musician, Fields, Significant

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• Our civilization is characterized by the word "progress." Progress is its form rather than making progress being one of its features. Typically it constructs. It is occupied with building an ever more complicated structure. And even clarity is sought only.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Civilization, Progress, Clarity

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• Sex for pleasure, for fun, or even for building relationships is completely absent from our national conversation. Yet taking the joy out of sexuality is a surefire way to ensure not that young women won't have sex, but rather that they'll have it without pleasure.

  Jessica Valenti

  Sex, Fun, Joy

  Jessica Valenti (2009). “The Purity Myth: How America's Obsession with Virginity Is Hurting Young Women”, p.43, Seal Press

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• By employing the intelligence of natural systems we can create industry, buildings, even regional plans that see nature and commerce not as mutually exclusive but mutually coexisting.

  Brad Pitt

  Natural, Eco Friendly, Commerce

  e2: The Economies of Being Environmentally Conscious, www.pbs.org. 2006.

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• Some guys can do more talking in the ring, other guys do posing, body building, whatever the hell they do in the ring. But I don't have the big body, and I'm not the big smooth talker, but I can get in the ring and wrestle

  Owen Hart

  Motivational, Wrestling, Talking

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• Try never to be the smartest person in the room. And if you are, I suggest you invite smarter people... or find a different room. In professional circles it's called networking. In organizations it's called team building. And in life it's called family, friends, and community. We are all gifts to each other, and my own growth as a leader has shown me again and again that the most rewarding experiences come from my relationships.

  Michael Dell

  Graduation, Team, Memorable

  Michael Dell's commencement address to University of Texas at Austin, www.graduationwisdom.com. May 2003.

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• India is a global power and an important partner with whom we are building an intense, broad and enduring relationship.

  Pierre Pettigrew

  Important, India, Intense

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• I could have made money this way, and perhaps amused myself writing code. But I knew that at the end of my career, I would look back on years of building walls to divide people, and feel I had spent my life making the world a worse place.

  Richard Stallman

  Wall, Writing, Years

  Richard Stallman (2002). “Free Software, Free Society: Selected Essays of Richard M. Stallman”, p.14, Lulu.com

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• 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

  War, Technology, Earthquakes

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• Japans humid and warm summer climate, as well as frequent earthquakes resulted in lightweight timber buildings raised off the ground that are resistant to earth tremors.

  Harry Seidler

  Summer, Japan, Earthquakes

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• When drawings of the main buildings I have designed in the last five years are juxtaposed, the fact that they all involve the pursuit of certain configurations is obvious to anyone.

  Yoshio Taniguchi

  Years, Drawing, Lasts

  Yoshio Taniguchi (1996). “The Japan Architect”

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