The Seed

"Suppose you are trying to create a flower — a new kind of flower. How will you do it? Of course you will not dream of trying to build it cell by cell, with tweezers. You know that any attempt to build such a complex and delicate thing directly would lead to nothing. The only flowers which men have built directly, piece by piece, are plastic flowers. If you want to make a living flower, there is only one way to do it — you will have to build a seed — for the flower — and then let it, this seed, generate the flower."

— Christopher Alexander, The Timeless Way of Building

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A quick cover for our internal UX architecture newsletter.