Dr. Alexander came to dinner at our house in 2002. It was a personal thrill for me to have several hours to discuss the future of our town and to dig deeper into his groundbreaking work in pattern theory. I asked him how he got the idea that eventually became the A Pattern Language in 1977. He said that an Angel appeared before him one day and explained how God made the world. Janet made stew and bread and asked him to sign my original copy from college. I was too shy to ask. True story.

( people loughing ) ...

"I'm getting old so I don't care about making a fool of myself" gets a thumbs up!

he's a legend, of course, both in terms of content & communication style. even if he does look like he's having a stroke during this interview

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Thank you for sharing this. I'll try to add a transcript.

Since he speaks kind of slow, you can speed up the clip to 1.5x speed by clicking on the gear icon and it seems more like a conversational speed. Works really well.

I translated Christopher's speech into Russian using the below transcription. Here it is.

omg and wow. many thanks to Team Nakano and masanari for this darshan from the guru. "the different road" he speaks of leads to pattern (0) HEAVEN ON EARTH. praise the creation for christopher alexander and his work

thank you for sharing

well, he gave it a shot

He is talking about creating abundance from the heart in our unhealthy default economy we're all complicit in called capitalism which defaults to scarcity because it's organized around endless expansion and profits for the top 1or 10% elites. To take a stand for inner calm and simple beauty is an act of rebellion in our modern world where we've become separated from our true selves as part of nature.

que le ocurre? porque esta así de triste?

As a programmer, how can I apply professor Alexander ideas to the codes that I write?