Christopher Alexander Quotes

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The Timeless Way

It is a process which brings order out of nothing but ourselves; it cannot be attained, but it will happen of its own accord, if we will only let it.

Will it be possible then, for people to say stonily, that poems are not real, and that patterns are nothing but images: when in fact, the world of images controls the world of matter. -- ChristopherAlexander.

We must face the fact that we are on the brink of times when man may be able to magnify his intellectual and inventive capability, just as in the nineteenth century he used machines to magnify his physical capacity. Again, as then, our innocence is lost. And again, of course, the innocence, once lost, cannot be regained. The loss demands attention, not denial. -- ChristopherAlexander 1964