Christopher Alexander Quotes

I do not write, I build.

The process of building a part doesn't really stop.

I just wondered how things were put together.

I was much more interested in making things than in designing them.

I did a lot of blue collar work. I also worked as a temp. I did, you know, light construction and cleaning. I did clerical temping. I also fix cars and motorcycles and electronics.

In truth I was manufacturing a brick wall of shits.

Clean up. Clean up, everybody, everywhere. Clean up. Clean up, everybody do your share.

There's something very satisfying about creating a tactile product.

I left Aerospace because I wanted to go build, and put spacecraft together.

The design of each element should be thought out in order to be easy to make and easy to repair.

I love working out how things are made, which is why I have so many models of towers.

I'd like to tidy up the entire planet. I would go anywhere if there were something that needs tidying.

I like to build things. I like to do things.

Environmental spending creates jobs in engineering, manufacturing, construction, materials, operations and maintenance.

Building is just skilled labor, I suppose. It's a lot of work. I don't mind other people building them, but the way things go together and are made is interesting to me; I like that a lot.

There's no getting away from it: you have to clean.

I am a mechanical techie. I can build things with my hands.

I enjoy building more than managing.

Tech, in the sense of... putting things together, that goes back beyond memory for me.

This house better get cleaned up in six months. The swamp is going to have to be drained pretty quickly.

Often when I talk about what I do, making isn't just this inevitable function tacked on at the end.

Steel is needed everywhere.

I just like building stuff.

A lot of the jobs I had revolved around metal fabrication and creating and building and maintaining equipment.

I put the hamburger on the assembly line.