Structure Quotes

“The longue durée is a structure which lies beneath the surface of the past, a framework which has a powerful and often secret influence on the course of events.”

“I'm always thinking about the last page of the issue as I'm writing the first.”

“The media are mute, not because they are evil, but because of their structure.”

“Composition is a way of organizing sound, but it's also a way of organizing your life.”

“Unlike other forms of capital, social capital inheres in the structure of relations between actors and among actors.”

“Structure is the key to understanding function.”

“The problem is to find a form that accommodates the mess.”

“The first step in making a branch of science autonomous is to fix its language.”

“Let this circumstance of our constitution be remarked, that our superiors are known to us, but we are not known to them.”

“The world economy is the greatest of all structures.”

“The final abstract expression of every art is number.”

“I was always interested in the question of how things are put together.”

“You can't show a beetle crossing the street and call it a story. It has to have a beginning, a middle, and an end. The end must be a resolution, not just a stop.”

“My ideal is to be able to be spontaneous within a frame.”

“I learned a lot about architecture in music school, about structure and form, and I think that influenced my arrangements.”

“A map is not the territory it represents, but, if correct, it has a similar structure to the territory, which accounts for its usefulness.”

“What I try to do is to write a piece of music that is a unity from beginning to end.”

“The military is not a democracy. It is a benign dictatorship.”

“The events, procedures, and results that constitute the sciences have no common structure.”

“Institutions are the rules of the game in a society or, more formally, are the humanly devised constraints that shape human interaction.”