Aleksey P

Little Fly,

Thy summer’s play

My thoughtless hand

Has brushed away.

Am not I

A fly like thee?

Or art not thou

A man like me?

For I dance

And drink, and sing,

Till some blind hand

Shall brush my wing…

William Blake

Independent as a hog on ice - determinedly or stubbornly independent.

“Having eradicated from the profession the knowledge base of what came before, planners, in the name of progress, try to create out of thin air solutions to problems that for millennia had been resolved. Worse, in their development and construction, they unethically experiment on live subjects. The sole criterion for their designs is that no one

What does it take to build something so that’s it’s really easy to make comfortable little modifications in a way that once you’ve made them, they feel integral with the nature and structure of what is already there?

Chris Alexander

“Planning strategies means taking into account the personal quirks of some individual who almost always is the source of the blockade, and devising ways to annul his blockade by disarming him, by avoiding him by an end run, or, if necessary and possible, by knocking him on the head - figuratively, of course. The justification is the importance of

But no one has ever started over from scratch by devising a wholly new conceptual structure, an entirely new vessel. Why? Because we cannot step outside of our own thought. We think in terms of the conceptual structure that we happen to have. Thought changes from within, step by step, in the harsh and continuous confrontation with its object:

Don't tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.

Anton Chekhov

Numbers, techniques, and predictions are useful for suggesting, testing, confirming, and putting discoveries to use. But there is nothing technical about the content of the discoveries. The universe does not revolve around the Earth. All the matter that surrounds us is just made up of protons, electrons, and neutrons. There are one hundred billion

Art, like a chemical reaction, can transmute one experience into another.