Complexity is one of the great problems in environmental design.

  • -- Christopher Alexander 克里斯托弗·亚历山大

复杂性是环境设计中的一个重要问题。

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Initially, it was the unpractical in fashion that brought me to design my own line. I felt that it was much more attractive to cut clothes with respect for the living, three-dimensional body rather than to cover the body with decorative ideas.

最初,正是时尚的不实用性让我设计了自己的系列。我觉得裁剪衣服更有吸引力的是尊重生命的立体的身体,而不是用装饰的想法来盖住身体。

A graphic representation of data abstracted from the banks of every computer in the human system. Unthinkable complexity. Lines of light ranged in the nonspace of the mind, clusters and constellations of data. Like city lights, receding.

从人类系统中每台计算机的数据库中抽象出来的数据的图形表示。不可思议的复杂性。光线在大脑的非空间、星系团和星系团中排列。就像城市的灯光,渐渐退去。

You can also make explicit certain social problems which, again, would be prejudged or not encountered at all in real life, because people have set up defenses against it. Fantasy allows you to get past defenses.

你也可以明确指出某些社会问题,这些社会问题,在现实生活中,可能会受到偏见的影响,或者根本不会遇到,因为人们已经对它建立了防御。幻想让你突破自我防卫。

Suicide doesn't solve your problems. It only makes them infinitely, un-countably worse.

自杀并不能解决你的问题。这只会让它们变得无限、不可数地糟糕。

Computers are to design as microwaves are to cooking.

电脑之于设计就像微波炉之于烹饪。

Without complexity, there's no intensity.

没有复杂性,就没有强度。