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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