Another productive day - I completed reading "Seven Life Lessons of Chaos".

The best part was a reference to a quote by an American architect, Christopher Alexander. I followed up the reference at amazon.com and then made a phone call to the local Chapters bookstore. They had one copy on the shelf. Thirty minutes later it was in my hands. It was originally published in 1979 and is still in print in hardcover. The title is "The Timeless Way of Building".

Here are some quotes from the chaos book:

• "... although computers can extend our grasp of the world, we should be careful not to rely on them so much that we ignore the many dimensions of reality that can't be computerized." (p. 90)
• "... we can quickly come to see the world through categories that blind us to the subtleties and the richness of the small things that bring alive the individuality of each encounter and the freshness of each day." (p. 95)
• "... if you have stood on a coastline enveloped in the sight of the ocean swelling and uncoiling breakers against the land, if you have ever contemplated the mountains, then you know." (p. 99)
• "Calling infinity a number does not make it one (W. H. Auden)" (p. 111)
• "What if the linear time of our technological world is no more than a convenient delusion of our mechanistic world, concealing a living vibrant time within the interior curling details of a fractal?" (p. 126)
• "Virginia Woolf suggested another sort of history, one in which women are engaged in continuous smnall acts of nurturing and holding society together." (p. 131)
• "Men have become tools of their tools. (Henry David Thoreau)." (p. 153)