"There is one timeless way of building. It is a thousand years old, and the same today as it has ever been. The great traditional buildings of the past, the villages and tents and temples in which man feels at home, have always been made by people who were very close to the center of this way."
Christopher Alexander was an Austrian-British architect and design theorist known for A Pattern Language and his influential work on architecture and urban design methods. His ideas also influenced software design patterns.