Society & Progress & Being

SOCIETY

We seem to value shares more than we share values.
© 2006 Ian Ritchie

PROGRESS

Science’s progress is measured by finding better descriptions of the world and things in and beyond it.
© 1995 Ian Ritchie

Progress is no longer the idea that just because we can, that means we should do it.
© 1994 Ian Ritchie

Since the industrial revolution, maintenance has dictated the quality of our environment.
© 1992 Ian Ritchie

BEING

My gender is not on the agenda.
© 2020 Ian Ritchie

To feel power is to be corrupted, to become influential releases a smile.
© 2015 Ian Ritchie

Technology is not the future, but simply one of many means to get there.
© 2011 Ian Ritchie

I have been lucky to have been permitted to dance with geniuses in the playground of their minds. 
© 2010 Ian Ritchie

I collaborate generously to reap new harvests.
© 2010 Ian Ritchie

What is the currency of communication that enables collaboration?
© 2010 Ian Ritchie

We should be designing with the mind in mind.
© 2009 Ian Ritchie

We stand as vertical as the Menhir to overcome fear. 
©  2007 Ian Ritchie

Our current notion of freedom is a handicap to progress – connexity, the essence of interdependence, is a way forward. 
©  2007 Ian Ritchie

We’re not running out of energy, but out of atmosphere.
© 2005 Ian Ritchie

My architecture starts in the spaces I create in my mind.
© 2003 Ian Ritchie

To be able to read our reality requires a reference – our dreams – and some of our dreams question reality’s reality.
© 2003 Ian Ritchie

I am convinced that beauty is in large measure non-linear.
© 2003 Ian Ritchie

It’s nice to be popular, but better to be nice. 
© 1999 Ian Ritchie

Ignorance, fear and the inability to take risks are the common ingredients of a non-creative environment.
© 1999 Ian Ritchie

Every collaboration is a chance to grow. 
© 1994 Ian Ritchie

Collaboration is knowing when to talk and when to listen, and when to lead and when to follow, and when to hold hands.
© 1993 Ian Ritchie

The only certainty about certainty is its uncertainty.
© 1993 Ian Ritchie

The power of aesthetics is measured in the mind, not in the bank balance or electricity meter. The lack of it is like drip-water torture – it numbs the mind.
© 1993 Ian Ritchie

Leonardo wrote backwards into the future.
© 1992 Ian Ritchie

If the experience of the present is anything to go by, then the TV scale crusher of images will reduce our whole world of experience to 10cm and 30 second bytes.
© 1992 Ian Ritchie, Light Exhibition & Catalogue, Ingolstadt

Touching something convinces us of its existence.
© 1992 Ian Ritchie

There are multiple futures, but surely the one we desire is preferable to the one left to fate.
© 1992 Ian Ritchie

As an ambitious man climbs the more you see of his arse. 
© 1990 Ian Ritchie

I have a child running through my life, my heart all the time. Impossible to ignore. 
© 1990 Ian Ritchie

How can an architect designing on a computer screen feel the architecture he is creating?
© 1989 Ian Ritchie

We are living more and more in the imaginary world contained in the screen.
© 1989 Ian Ritchie

The screen world we are all living in is distancing us from the sensory world.
© 1989 Ian Ritchie

Images have never before had such potential to contain so much information, but also to contain so much disinformation.
© 1989 Ian Ritchie

Through images the line between fact and fiction is disappearing.
© 1989 Ian Ritchie

We have to distinguish not only between fact and fiction but also between communication and discourse.
© 1989 Ian Ritchie

Kissing Glass allows us to kiss the unattainable.
© 1987 Ian Ritchie