Quotes about Structure

Good design is simple. You hear this from math to painting. In math it means that a shorter proof tends to be a better one. Where axioms are concerned, especially, less is more. It means much the same thing in programming. For architects and designers, it means that beauty should depend on a few carefully chosen structural elements rather than a profusion of superficial ornament.

In almost any group of people you'll find hierarchy. When groups of adults form in the real world, it's generally for some common purpose, and the leaders end up being those who are best at it. The problem with most schools is, they have no purpose. But hierarchy there must be. And so the kids make one out of nothing.

With his night-cap and his night-shirt tatters, He botches up the loop-holes in the structure of the world.

Without some central authority, society will disintegrate into chaos and anarchy.

Individuals may form communities, but it is institutions alone that can create a nation.

Good stories don't happen by accident, I learned. They are planned.

And I found myself wanting even better stories. And that's the thing you'll realize when you organize your life into the structure of story.

Boundaries are simply clearly stated parameters that provide a safe structure for communication and the health of a relationship.

Rose out of Chaos:

What does education often do? It makes a straight-cut ditch of a free, meandering brook.

The highest does not stand without the lowest.

Organizations typically structure themselves around function or business unit or geography—but successful growth companies optimize around the job.