Nexus Network Journal: Architecture and Mathematics Online

Optimist, Pessimist, or Architect?

Readers Queries Online

ORIGINAL QUERY:
Date: Tuesday, 1 April 2003
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Editor in Chief, Nexus Network Journal

To the optimist, the glass is half full.
To the pessimist, the glass is half empty.
To the architect, the glass is not big enough.

After receiving so many wonderful abstracts for our consideration for the
Nexus 2004 conference, I'd like to add to that list:

To the NNJ reader, the glass will be the subject of his (or her) next presentation at Nexus.

Would anyone like to add to the list?

[Kim thanks Bahram Hooshyar Yousefi, http://yousefi.persianblog.com, for the original quote]

Comments

#20 Mikael Nagchawski 2011-09-20 00:34
To the nihilist, the glass does not exist, nor do I
To the Water Conservation Activist, if we do not fill the rest of the glass and preserve it for future generations it will all be gone in years
#19 Julius Caeser 2011-06-10 08:39
To the Politician the glass would have less liquid if the opposition were in government.
#18 Emanuel Jannasch 2010-08-08 15:14
The Nexus reader, assuming a perfectly cylindrical glass, might observe that the ratio of the height of the glass to the height of the water is as an octave.
#17 Gert Sperling 2010-08-08 15:14
To the theologian, the glass is a mirror of himself.
#16 Nurten Aksugur 2010-08-08 15:13
To the architectural educator, the glass is bottomless and can never be filled.
#15 Aleksandra Slahova 2010-08-08 15:12
To the mathematician, the glass is virtual reality.
To the architecture historian, the glass is a guide to action.
To the engineer, the glass is a capacity.
#14 Vera W. de Spinadel 2010-08-08 15:11
To the mathematician, a glass is topologically equivalent to a surface with a hole.
#13 Pietro Totaro 2010-08-08 15:10
To the mathematician, the glass is a manifold.
To the architecture historian, the glass is a good companion of his work, if filled with a good wine.
To the engineer, the glass is an article to put on the market.
#12 Frans Cerulus 2010-08-08 15:07
The mathematician: The glass was filled from Klein's bottle.
The architecture historian: the glass is iridescently opaque.
The engineer: we need a spare glass
#11 Bruno Santos 2010-08-08 15:06
To the glass, everything contains and is contained.

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