"You know, even if somebody has a kind of patch, a bit of concrete in the front of their house, if it's a little scratchy bit of concrete that they did, it may not be perfect, but they know it, they love it, there's the paw print of the cat in it. It doesn't matter that it isn't perfect. What matters is that it has been done by somebody one Saturday afternoon and we see the trace of that imperfect person there."

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• 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.hypothesis0.769
  A conditional rule for the unfolding process.
• No building is ever really complete – inhabitants' requirements change, environment changes. Repair should lose sense of 'incorrectness' and become redesign opportunity.concept0.763
  Alexander's foundational insight about iterative system improvement that motivates the piecemeal growth approach.
• Simple, intentionally rough paper and cardboard models that can be rapidly torn, cut, and patched provide a practical way to evolve design through feedback.claim0.759
  Proposed practical method for achieving step-by-step feedback in design.
• If every neighborhood maintained an ongoing, updated diagnosis on a computer, all future acts and capital expenditure could be continuously guided toward improvement of bad spots and enhancement of better spotshypothesis0.756
  Alexander's proposal for institutionalizing the diagnosis-feedback-repair loop at city scale.
• The feeling of such a floor cannot be accurately judged from a drawing made in advance.claim0.751
  Justification for physical mockups and on-site design adaptation.
• No building has the wabi-sabi, rusty, imperfect quality at the time when it is built; but some buildings and landscapes invite it, encourage it, foster it.claim0.748
  A nuanced claim about the temporal dimension of belonging and living structure.
• When you make a beautiful thing, the depth of the person within becomes more vivid, lives more intensely for a moment.claim0.748
• The building got a level of service and design care, not only beyond what was paid for, but, in this instance, far beyond the ordinary. It was a new kind of service, not yet known today!quote0.745
  Alexander's summary of the level of care provided on the Julian Street Inn, from the construction memo.