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Quote: Helen Keller

Peter Schmelzer — Fri, 23 Apr 2010 18:58:49 +0000

“Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.”
- Helen Keller

Quote: Friedrich Engels

Peter Schmelzer — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 15:22:35 +0000

online casino“An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory.”
-Friedrich Engels

Quote: Claude Levi-Strauss

Peter Schmelzer — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 19:40:48 +0000

The wise man doesn’t give the right answers; he poses the right questions.

Claude Levi-Strauss

On Hiring an Architect….

Peter Schmelzer — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 19:04:18 +0000

A sugar broker may have ideas about a portrait but he won’t try to paint it himself. He will commission a portrait painter, in whom he has confidence, to make a likeness of his wife or child as the case may be. Even more necessary are the services of an architect when building or remodeling a house. Trying to be your own architect is as foolish as drawing a sketch of little Jerry on canvas and then calling in a house painter to smear on a daub of blue for his coat, a bit of yellow for his hair, white for his collar, and just anything for the background. At worst, though, this futuristic result can be taken to the attic, turned face to the wall and forgotten; but a botched house won’t let you forget. You have to live in it along with your mistakes, day after day and, possibly, year after year. When and if you finally call in an architect and have them remedied or obviated, the cost will be considerably in excess of what his total fee would have been in the beginning.

So, find the best man practicing in the vicinity where your future home is to be located and cast your burdens on his drafting board.

“If You’re Going to Live in the Country”, by
Thomas H. Ormsbee and Richmond Huntley 2006

Quote: Charles Duell

Peter Schmelzer — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 15:56:40 +0000

мебели“Everything that can be invented has been invented.”

-Charles Duell, Director of the US Patent Office, 1899

Quote: John Ruskin

Peter Schmelzer — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 04:28:19 +0000

“We require from buildings, as from men, two kinds of goodness: first, the doing their practical duty well: then that they be graceful and pleasing in doing it; which last is itself another form of duty.”

Quote: Edmund Burke

Peter Schmelzer — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 19:04:19 +0000

“The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.”

Edmund Burke

Quote: Phillipe Starck

Peter Schmelzer — Sun, 14 Oct 2007 16:18:05 +0000

“Designers should define their role broadly as agents of good in the world, and limit their work to ‘legitimate’ products: those that are needed, and those that can be made without damage to nature or — through the unethical actions of manufacturers and investors — damage to people.”

Industrial designer Phillipe Starck, on the purpose of design
via Treehugger

Quote: Moliere

Peter Schmelzer — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 16:37:38 +0000

“The trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit.”

Quote: Anatole France

Peter Schmelzer — Wed, 12 Sep 2007 22:56:17 +0000

“To accomplish great things, we must dream as well as act.”