Famous quotes containing the words window, system, architecture, model, network and/or transparency:
“O Mary, at thy window be,
It is the wish’d, the trysted hour!”
—Robert Burns (1759–1796)
“Delight at having understood a very abstract and obscure system leads most people to believe in the truth of what it demonstrates.”
—G.C. (Georg Christoph)
“They can do without architecture who have no olives nor wines in the cellar.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“The playing adult steps sideward into another reality; the playing child advances forward to new stages of mastery....Child’s play is the infantile form of the human ability to deal with experience by creating model situations and to master reality by experiment and planning.”
—Erik H. Erikson (20th century)
“Of what use, however, is a general certainty that an insect will not walk with his head hindmost, when what you need to know is the play of inward stimulus that sends him hither and thither in a network of possible paths?”
—George Eliot [Mary Ann (or Marian)
“Life is filigree work.... What is written clearly is not worth much, it’s the transparency that counts.”
—Louis-Ferdinand Céline (1894–1961)