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"What might be in doubt is whether you have the stamina, the sheer will, and stick-to-itiveness, to make sure this happens, because you keep rejecting every version where it doesn't happen, until it does happen."

Alexander's characterization of the practical bottleneck in producing living structure: not method but persistence.

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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.
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Alexander's claim that the limiting factor in creating living structure is not method but the maker's persistence.

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"[W]e must confess that perception, and what depends upon it, is inexplicable in terms of mechanical reasons... when inspecting its interior, we will find only parts that push one another, and we will never find anything to explain a perception."quote0.792
Canonical illustration of the Hard Problem intuition that any functional/mechanical explanation faces an explanatory gap for perception
"[W]e must confess that perception, and what depends upon it, is inexplicable in terms of mechanical reasons... we will find only parts that push one another, and we will never find anything to explain a perception."quote0.790
Load-bearing quote from Monadology §17 providing earliest clear statement of the Hard Problem
A question anywhere along the line that elicits a premature attempt at an answer could neutralize the remainder of the process into rationalization.hypothesis0.760
About chain-of-thought and process safety.
The client now feels unequivocally that it was all worthwhile.claim0.759
Statement about the client's satisfaction after anxious delays.
The first possibilities that present themselves to the mind are more likely bad than good; therefore one should be extremely skeptical and reject most of them.claim0.755
Practical advice derived from the previous claim.
Everything is vague to a degree you do not realize till you have tried to make it precise.concept0.755
Epigraph motivating the necessity of precise semantic specification in programming
Self-inquiry and non-self are not contradictory—experience exists without a fixed experiencer.claim0.754
If the feeling is genuine and does arise out of the site itself, then it must be thought of as an absolute which later stages of design and construction must only strengthen, deepen.hypothesis0.752
A conditional rule for the unfolding process.