Awareness that living process will change our means of production entirely is only beginning to sink in.

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• In each step of a living process one must be able to feel, ahead of time, the feeling which will later exist in the finished object, without yet knowing its form in detail.claim0.823
• The core of all living process is step-by-step adaptation — the modification and evolution which happen gradually in response to information about the degree to which the emerging structure supports the whole.claim0.816
  Definition of the essential mechanism of living structure formation.
• In a living process, every step is done in such a way as to increase the beauty—the life—of the whole.quote0.815
  Encapsulates the chapter's main message.
• Possibly the most basic and necessary feature of any living process is the fact that it goes gradually.claim0.815
  Core thesis of the chapter: gradual, step-by-step progression is the bedrock of life.
• The living process can be steered by the extent to which it has deep feeling in it.claim0.814
• A living process always creates something unique at every point, respecting the uniqueness of every person and every place.claim0.813
• The issue is not whether the process will produce living structure if done faithfully — it will — but whether the maker has the stamina and will to keep rejecting versions that lack life.claim0.813
  Alexander's claim that the limiting factor in creating living structure is not method but the maker's persistence.
• Every living process must necessarily be an adaptive, step-by-step process that creates unity by adapting the structure into harmony with what exists.claim0.812