God is in the details...

[Sharon Colvin]

On Tue, 29 Oct 1996 Mjccmc01 at aol.com (Siobhan ni'Breoghan Fitzlloyd)
wrote:
> "God is in the details."  (Anybody know the architect who said
> that?)

and Tim McDaniel wrote:
> I remember seeing a discussion about this; unfortunately, I don't
> recall where, and the book I suspect is still in one of 29 cardboard
> boxen.  I think it was in _Quoth the Maven_ by William Safire.  IIRC,
> he discussed both "God is in the details" and "The devil is in the
> details", finding plenty of people who quoted them but no original.

Okay, if the architect was the original (and I'm not saying I know that),
then it was Mies van der Rohe.

Oriana
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