“Where there is dirt there is system. Dirt is the by-product of a systematic ordering and classification of matter.”— Mary Douglas
“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
“Simple peck-order behavior serves to keep the community in order. It’s everybody’s duty to know his place.”— Octavia E. Butler
“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
“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
“The basis of all scientific work is the conviction that the world is not a mere jumble of accidents, but an orderly cosmos.”— Edward Forbes
“I never did anything, great or small, without obtaining in advance express instructions from Adolf Hitler or any of my superiors.”— Adolf Eichmann
“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
“To create architecture is to put in order. Put what in order? Function and objects.”— Le Corbusier
“Order is the pleasure of reason; but disorder is the delight of the imagination.”— Eugène Delacroix
“There's something about the crisp logical clarity of lists that's just very reassuring.”— Ken Jennings
“Any classification is a violation of the richness of the material, but without it we cannot see the woods for the trees.”— Marston Bates