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“Major power and telephone grids have long been controlled by computer networks, but now similar systems are embedded in such mundane objects as electric meters, alarm clocks, home refrigerators and thermostats, video cameras, bathroom scales, and Christmas-tree lights - all of which are, or soon will be, accessible remotely.”

“A fractal is a mathematical set or concrete object that is irregular or fragmented at all scales...”

Science Objects Definitions Scales Mathematical Concrete Fragmented Fractals

Author:Benoit Mandelbrot

“Persons without education certainly do not want either acuteness or strength of mind in what concerns themselves, or in things immediately within their observation; but they have no power of abstraction, no general standard of taste, or scale of opinion. They see their objects always near, and never in the horizon. Hence arises that egotism which has been remarked as the characteristic of self-taught men.”

Source: Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)

“To go back to architecture, whats organic about architecture as a field, unlike product design, is this whole issue of holism and of monumentality is really our realm. Like, we have to design things which are coherent as a single object, but also break down into small rooms and have an identity of both the big scale and the small scale.”

Whole Bigs Rooms Break Issues Design Fields Identity Objects Products Architecture Scales Realms Breaking Down Product Design Small Rooms Holism

Author:Greg Lynn

“Scale is a mental - you can say that a lounger has scale, a building has scale, or an object has scale, or a page, or whatever if it's just right. A scale is a relationship to the object and the space surrounding it. And that dialogue could be music, or it could be just noise. And that is why it is so important, the sense of scale.”

Ifs Important Space Objects Building Pages Scales Dialogue Noise

Author:Massimo Vignelli

“Geology, in the magnitude and sublimity of the objects of which it treats, undoubtedly ranks, in the scale of the sciences, next to astronomy.”

Next Objects Treats Astronomy Scales Magnitude Geology Sublimity

Book:Preliminary discourse on the study of natural philosophy

Source: Preliminary discourse on the study of natural philosophy

“I love grand scale. One of the things that everybody mentions is that my novels are beautiful objects in the sense that the elements of the actual book are being extruded and re-contextualized.”

Book Beautiful Novel Objects Elements Scales Beautiful Objects

Author:Richard Grossman

“Many painters had a clear idea of what fractals are. Take a French classic painter named Poussin. Now, he painted beautiful landscapes, completely artificial ones, imaginary landscapes. And how did he choose them? Well, he had the balance of trees, of lawns, of houses in the distance. He had a balance of small objects, big objects, big trees in front and his balance of objects at every scale is what gives to Poussin a special feeling.”

“It is more parsimonious to assume that the sun goes around the Earth, that atoms at the smallest scale operate in accordance with the same rules that objects at larger scales follow, and that we perceive what is really out there. All of these positions were long defended by argument from parsimony, and they were all wrong.”

Long Earth Sun Position Objects Argument Assuming Scales Perceive Atoms Smallest Parsimony

Book:Incognito: The Secret Lives of The Brain

Source: Incognito: The Secret Lives of The Brain