Manuel Lima

“This much needed transformation will have to acknowledge the city as a living organism in constant mutation, a highly complex network involving a vast number of variables. It will have to conceive the city as an open space bursting with overlap and spontaneity, where the natural conditions for creativity, recreation, and cooperation can easily prosper. This will only happen if we stop imposing artificial barriers on our spaces and truly embrace the diverse social nature of man.”
― Manuel Lima, Visual Complexity: Mapping Patterns of Information

“The origin of the word knowledge itself is strongly tied to trees. "In the Germanic languages, most terms for learning, knowledge, wisdom, and so on are derived from the words for tree or wood," says Hageneder. "In Anglo Saxon we have witan (mind, consciousness) and witige (wisdom); in English, 'wits,' 'witch', and wizard'; and in modern German, Witz (wits, joke). These words all stem from the ancient Scandinavian root word vid, which means 'wood' (as in forest, not timber).”
― Manuel Lima, Visual Complexity: Mapping Patterns of Information