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To make a building speak, one must make it speak in its own language, that of architecture.

Étienne-Louis Boullée

Architecture

The beauty of architecture does not consist in the richness of the materials, but in the justness of the proportions and the elegance of the forms.

Claude Perrault

Architecture

I would have the building of a noble and beautiful fabric to be as lasting as the world itself.

Christopher Wren

Architecture

I have no other master than the ancient Roman buildings.

Francesco Borromini

Architecture

The most beautiful things are those that are most useful.

Andrea Palladio

Architecture

I shall place the Pantheon upon the Basilica of Maxentius.

Donato Bramante

Architecture

A building is a kind of body, which, like all other bodies, is composed of its parts and its members.

Leon Battista Alberti

Architecture

One man and a boy, with this machine, can clean as much cotton as thirty men without it.

Eli Whitney

Invention

To build is to serve God and man.

Filippo Brunelleschi

Architecture

My works are a testament to the glory of God and the power of the Ottoman Empire.

Sinan

Architecture

The dome, a symbol of the heavens, must rest upon the earth with grace and strength, uniting the divine with the terrestrial.

Isidore of Miletus

Architecture

The Parthenon, a temple of Athena, was built by Callicrates and Ictinus.

Callicrates

Architecture

The physician treats, but nature heals.

Imhotep

Architecture

The sky is like a hen's egg, and is all of it; the earth is like the yolk of the egg, and is in the center of the sphere.

Zhang Heng

Engineering

Music is a language that doesn’t speak in particular words. It speaks in emotions, and if it’s in the bones, it’s in the bones.

Ray Charles

Music

The only thing better than singing is more singing.

Ella Fitzgerald

Music

MapReduce is a programming model designed for processing large data sets with parallelizable jobs across a large cluster.

Jeff Dean

Computer Science

The best is yet to come and babe, won't it be fine?

Frank Sinatra

Music

Art is not a mirror held up to reality but a hammer with which to shape it.

Dmitri Shostakovich

Music

I don't think of myself as a woman in computer science. I think of myself as a computer scientist.

Radia Perlman

Computer Science