Christopher Alexander: Zitate

„Lerne, wie man das ganz Kleine mit den eigenen Händen und das ganz Große mit dem eigenen Geist macht.“

„Wir müssen zuerst eine Disziplin lernen, die uns die wahre Beziehung zwischen uns und unserer Umgebung lehrt.“ (TWB:16)

"It turns out that this knowledge only brings us back to that part of ourselves which is forgotten." (TWB, 1979: 13)

"For the use of pattern languages it is not merely something that happens in traditional societies. It is a fundamental fact about our human nature, as fundamental as the fact of speech." (TWB, 1979:198)

"...the pattern, which says that {xy} are a good idea in general, {are in our} mind before a decision" is taken. (TWB, 1979:201)

"Everybody follows rules of thumb." [...] and all these rules of thumb - or patterns - are part of larger systems which are languages." pattern language, Mustersprache (TWB, 1979:201)

"At all times, in every human culture, the entities of which the world is made are always governed by the pattern languages which people use. [...] They are the origine of all the structure in the man-made world." (TWB, 1979: 2010)

If you want to create beautiful building, do you think about feeling and smell, and how people feel when they are in this building. But after all: are you apeace with yourself when you try to make a beautiful building? (interviewed by Max Jacobson in the 1970th)

„In a period ... when people have been robbed of their intuitions by specialists, when they no longer even know the simplest patterns that were once implicit in their habits, it becomes necessary to make patterns explicit, precisely and scientifically, so that they can be shared in a new way “ (ToB ?)