Logic is neither an art nor a science but a dodge.
Freedom in art freedom in society this is the double goal towards which all consistent and logical minds must strive.
Logic: The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding.
The web then or the pattern a web at once sensuous and logical an elegant and pregnant texture: that is style that is the foundation of the art of literature.
For art to exist for any sort of aesthetic activity to exist a certain physiological precondition is indispensable: intoxication.
Opera next to Gothic architecture is one of the strangest inventions of Western man. It could not have been foreseen by any logical process.
Technological considerations are of great importance to architecture and cities in the informational society.
Architecture is involved with the world but at the same time it has a certain autonomy. This autonomy cannot be explained in terms of traditional logic because the most interesting parts of the work are non-verbal. They operate within the terms of the work like any art.
Without this spirit Modernist architecture cannot fully exist. Since there is often a mismatch between the logic and the spirit of Modernism I use architecture to reconcile the two.
The logic of Palladian architecture presented an aesthetic formula which could be applied universally.
I loved logic math computer programming. I loved systems and logic approaches. And so I just figured architecture is this perfect combination.
Make big plans aim high in hope and work remembering that a noble logical diagram once recorded will not die.
The way life manages information involves a logical structure that differs fundamentally from mere complex chemistry. Therefore chemistry alone will not explain life's origin any more than a study of silicon copper and plastic will explain how a computer can execute a program.
The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced.
You live in a deranged age more deranged that usual because in spite of great scientific and technological advances man has not the faintest idea of who he is or what he is doing.
About the time I turned 50 I experienced the profound biological change that often accompanies women at that age. Also I put two kids in college and lost both of my parents so I'm no longer somebody's daughter.
I began to speak well at a very advanced age - 15 16 17 years old. It was psychological: the trauma of war my family and growing up on my own. I was more or less a street kid.
We are the children of a technological age. We have found streamlined ways of doing much of our routine work. Printing is no longer the only way of reproducing books. Reading them however has not changed.
We are approaching a new age of synthesis. Knowledge cannot be merely a degree or a skill... it demands a broader vision capabilities in critical thinking and logical deduction without which we cannot have constructive progress.
In this electronic age we see ourselves being translated more and more into the form of information moving toward the technological extension of consciousness.
The great book for you is the book that has the most to say to you at the moment when you are reading. I do not mean the book that is most instructive but the book that feeds your spirit. And that depends on your age your experience your psychological and spiritual need.
The information encoded in your DNA determines your unique biological characteristics such as sex eye color age and Social Security number.
By all but the pathologically romantic it is now recognized that this is not the age of the small man.
I don't have time for their judgement and their stupidity and you know they lay down with their ugly wives in front of their ugly children and look at their loser lives and then they look at me and they say 'I can't process it' well no you never will stop trying just sit back and enjoy the show. You know?