Architecture Quotes (311 Quotes)


    Linux promises to fulfill the promise made by Unix a decade ago -- a truly cheap, powerful and entirely open computing architecture, ... Sun is digging in its heels fighting the trend. As a result, no self-respecting CIO will say she or he wants to do more business with Sun.

    Something really is broken in the international financial architecture, ... We're now in the 20th month of financial crisis. Yet this crisis was brewing, it was the most anticipated crisis in recent history.

    While 3D has been popular in the PC and game console market, to date there has been little penetration of 3D graphics and sound in consumer applications that require low power and reduced cost. The ZEVIO architecture will enable 3D capabilities in these applications while maintaining the retail price points and low-power consumption required by the consumer market. With its unique combination of media processing and advanced graphics, the ZEVIO application processor architecture is positioned to penetrate a potential market of over 300 million units in 2005 and 400 million units by 2009.


    Architecture is not a private affair even a house must serve a whole family and its friends, and most buildings are used by everybody, people of all walks of life. If a building is to meet the needs of all the people, the architect must look for some common ground of understanding and experience.


    According to Robert LeBlanc, general manager for WebSphere for IBM Software Group, Staples became an early adopter of SOA two years ago, working closely with IBM to build a scalable, integrated, multichannel retailing solution. They needed scalability, because the old system did not scale, ... and they started to grow and expand their business. And they really needed a new style of architecture. ... They wanted to go over the system once and reuse the pieces over and over again as they were bringing new services to their customer set.



    There are 3,000 members of the media here this week. They're looking for interesting stories, ... Some are writing about New Orleans as a family destination. The Food Network is here right now shooting a week-long series on cuisine. House and Garden television is talking about architecture. A news crew from Japan, while covering the football game, is talking about the birthplace of jazz. This all allows New Orleans to show off all of its attributes.


    When I write now I do not invent situation, characters, or actions, but rather structures and discursive forms, textual groupings which are combined according to secret affinities among themselves, as in architecture or the plastic arts.

    I loved logic, math, computer programming. I loved systems and logic approaches. And so I just figured architecture is this perfect combination.

    People in Virginia and elsewhere come because they want to see the beauty of the house, or they're interested in architecture. But we have other people come because they're interested in how to compose a declaration of independence, or how to set up a government.

    It is a prominent corner that draws a lot of attention to the project, ... They wanted something that was dynamic and something that would make a significant statement but would not block traffic. They also looked at how the artwork would marry with the architecture throughout and work aesthetically with the project.

    Writer Tom Piazza was born on Long Island but now calls New Orleans home. New Orleans has a personality unlike any other city, ... It has its own architecture, its own vegetation, its own smells and cuisine, and, obviously, its own music--many types of its own music. It is relaxed, and a high percentage of the population knows the value of a good meal, a good laugh, some cold beer and crawfish, and a good band. These are highly conducive to the production of good fiction, too.

    The aesthetic of architecture has to be rooted in a broader idea about human activities like walking, relaxing and communicating. Architecture thinks about how these activities can be given added value.


    In a broad sense there are a lot of people working on the elusive nirvana of cross-platform development. This is a very specific area where we firmly believe and espouse as part of our strategy to use a language and an architecture that automatically gives you cross platform.

    CRM solutions that support knowledge work as well as process work represent the last mile for organizations of all types and sizes, and with our new Customer Adaptive Solutions strategy, Siebel is again leading the way, ... Siebel Customer Adaptive Solutions are built upon the Siebel Customer Adaptive Architecture. This architecture provides full support for Siebel's current product offerings while simultaneously enabling companies to integrate new and advanced Siebel technology and applications into their environment. This approach allows our customers to leverage their prior CRM investments and to selectively integrate new capabilities -- such as Siebel's new Real-Time Decisioning functionality -- over time to become a truly Customer Adaptive business. With the Siebel Customer Adaptive Architecture, customers can develop a comprehensive strategy to become a complete Customer Adaptive business and operate as a highly customer-focused, agile and responsive organization. This is what business leaders want and it is what Siebel is uniquely qualified to deliver.

    Does it follow that the house has nothing in common with art and is architecture not to be included in the arts? Only a very small part of architecture belongs to art: the tomb and the monument. Everything else that fulfils a function is to be excluded from the domain of art.

    Organizations have started to create road maps that will enable their transition to a service-oriented architecture. As such, the SAP TechEd events create a community for success by allowing customers, partners and developers to share and accelerate knowledge surrounding SAP NetWeaver while they discover how existing processes and IT landscapes can be transformed into enablers of business innovation and change.

    Today's announcement with NBK illustrates how the Cisco Intelligent Information Network vision for communications system allows organizations to cost-effectively enhance interaction with their customers by creating a seamless communications environment. Banking environments are highly mission-critical and require a networking infrastructure that is robust, manageable, highly secure and flexible enough for changing requirements. Working at an advisory level with NBK, we will enable the bank to increase the efficiency of operations and lower the total cost of ownership while delivering new, integrated services such as the IP Communication architecture.

    Actors become actors because they loved entertaining their family by putting on the lampshade and dancing around as a kid, ... That's not my personality. For me, the fun part of making movies is seeing it as a director sees it. I like the architecture of movies. I like knowing what's coming and working to set that up.

    Liquid architecture. It's like jazz - you improvise, you work together, you play off each other, you make something, they make something. And I think it's a way of - for me, it's a way of trying to understand the city, and what might happen in the city.


    I have always been a fan of AMD's technology and design philosophies, going back to my early days at IBM, ... When AMD64 was first introduced, I knew right away it was something very special. It is an advanced technology, clearly focused on customer needs, with compatibility for existing software, and incredible scalability and extensibility. Because AMD64 technology was designed and optimized from the start for multi-core processing using its Direct Connect Architecture, we really have only scratched the surface of its true computing potential. That's very good news for all of our customers.




    Built in 1763, it is the oldest surviving synagogue in North America. Still in use, the building combines an intimate elegance with Classical grandeur in the best tradition of Georgian architecture. It is also a National Landmark, the highest designation given to an American building.

    Eighteen months out we have to go to developers and talk to them about the platform, talk to them about the tools and the architecture so that when the product ships there are amazing games available.

    We just had a graduate from the master's program at Stanford University. We have about seven students at University of Las Vegas in the architecture. We have three local architects...

    Hardware wise, there's a lot of marketing hype about the consoles. A lot of it really needs to be taken with grains of salt about exactly how powerful it is, ... The Xbox 360 has an architecture where you essentially have got three processors and they're all running the same memory pool and they're all synchronized, and cache coherent, and you can spawn off another thread in your program and make it go do some work. That's kind of the best case and it's still really difficult to turn into faster performance or getting it to get more stuff done in a game title.


    They are graduates of maritime academies and they hold degrees in nautical science and maritime transportation, ... They've demonstrated proficiency and knowledge of the rules of the water, vessel navigation, naval architecture, vessel stability and loading, marine safety and boat handling.

    The same sort of thing happened in my dispute with the National Trust book: Follies: A National Trust Guide, which implied that the only pleasure you can get from Folly architecture is by calling the architect mad, and by laughing at the architecture.




    We're focusing on particular works films, books, pieces of music, architecture that deserve the name 'icon' and have this influence on our culture. Everybody knows those things, but almost because they're icons, people don't look below the fact of them.

    The quality of American life is an insult to the possibilities of human growth. . . the pollution of American space, with gadgetry and cars and TV and box architecture, brutalizes the senses, making gray neurotics of most of us. . .

    Music is part of the big three. New Orleans is food, architecture and music. Everyone in New Orleans is a musician or has a relative who's a musician, whether they are professional or amateur.



    After about the first Millennium, Italy was the cradle of Romanesque architecture, which spread throughout Europe, much of it extending the structural daring with minimal visual elaboration.

    It wasn't what I would like it to be. I think we were spending a lot of money. We were building an architecture that was complicated. We had fragmented information.



    Each class has a different approach. In the furniture class, they will walk through a local furniture store to learn about antique furnishings. The architecture class focuses on Black Belt architecture.

    Post-Modernism was a reaction against Modernism. It came quite early to music and literature, and a little later to architecture. And I think it's still coming to computer science.



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