“To design is to plan and to organize, to order, to relate and to control. In short it embraces all means opposing disorder and accident.”— Josef Albers
“Yet, it is a simple truth that the human mind can face better the most oppressive government, the most rigid restrictions, than the awful prospect of a lawless, frontierless world.”— Eric Ambler
“Where there is dirt there is system. Dirt is the by-product of a systematic ordering and classification of matter.”— Mary Douglas
“Man's striving for order, of which art is but one manifestation, derives from a similar universal tendency throughout the organic world; it is a means of rendering understandable the environment and the self.”— Rudolf Arnheim
“Symmetry, as wide or as narrow as you may define its meaning, is one idea by which man through the ages has tried to comprehend and create order, beauty, and perfection.”— Hermann Weyl
“To create architecture is to put in order. Put what in order? Function and objects.”— Le Corbusier
“I never did anything, great or small, without obtaining in advance express instructions from Adolf Hitler or any of my superiors.”— Adolf Eichmann
“The very beginnings of science are to be found in the recognition that there is a definite, ascertainable order in the universe, of which we are a part.”— Lord Kelvin
“The intellectual power of man is not a-wandering thing, but has a fixed law and order of its own.”— George Boole
“Simple peck-order behavior serves to keep the community in order. It’s everybody’s duty to know his place.”— Octavia E. Butler
“It is a singular fact that of all the innumerable host of stars which have been observed and catalogued, not one has ever been known to quit its appointed place.”— George Phillips Bond