Cities need old buildings so badly it is probably impossible for vigorous streets and districts to grow without them.... for reall...y new ideas of any kind--no matter how ultimately profitable or otherwise successful some of them might prove to be--there is no leeway for such chancy trial, error and experimentation in the high-overhead economy of new construction. Old ideas can sometimes use new buildings. New ideas must use old buildings.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Today so much rebellion is aimless and demoralizing precisely because children have no values to challenge. Teenage rebellion is a... testing process in which young people try out various values in order to make them their own. But during those years of trial, error, embarrassment, a child needs family standards to fall back on, reliable habits of thought and feeling that provide security and protection.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Every political system is an accumulation of habits, customs, prejudices, and principles that have survived a long process of tria...l and error and of ceaseless response to changing circumstances. If the system works well on the whole, it is a lucky accident--the luckiest, indeed, that can befall a society.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Children, then, acquire social skills not so much from adults as from their interactions with one another. They are likely to disc...over through trial and error which strategies work and which do not, and later to reflect consciously on what they have learned.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
And from a cliff top is proclaimed The gathering of the souls for birth,... The trial by existence named, The obscuration upon earth.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
People are so busy dreaming the American Dream, fantasizing about what they could be or have a right to be, that they're all aslee...p at the switch. Consequently we are living in the Age of Human Error.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It is not to everyone's taste that truth should be pronounced pleasant. But at least let no one believe that error becomes truth w...hen it is pronounced unpleasant.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A lady is smarter than a gentleman, maybe, She can sew a fine seam, she can have a baby,... She can use her intuition instead of her brain, But she can't fold a paper in a crowded train.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
For he is not a mortal, as I am, that I might answer him, that we should come to trial together. There is no umpire between us, wh...o might lay his hand on us both.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »