
“Every block of stone has a statue inside it and it is the task of the sculptor to discover it”
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Italian sculptor, painter, architect and poet 1475–1564Related quotes


“A stumbling block to the pessimist is a stepping-stone to the optimist.”

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“Statues to great men are made of the stones thrown at them in their lifetime.”
“When a new building block is discovered, the result is usually a range of innovations.”
Source: Hidden Order - How Adaptation Builds Complexity (1995), Ch 2. Adaptive Systems, p. 62