There is no joy equal to that of being able to work for all humanity and doing what you're doing well.
...primarily the individual is going to study at home.
I would say, then, that you are faced with a future in which education is going to be number one amongst the great world industries.
We as economic society are going to have to pay our whole population to go to school and pay it to stay at school.
Only the free-wheeling artist-explorer, non-academic, scientist-philosopher, mechanic, economist-poet who has never waited for patron-starting and accrediting of his co-ordinate capabilities holds the prime initiative today.
Sometimes I think we're alone. Sometimes I think we're not. In either case, the thought is staggering.
We are called to be architects of the future, not its victims.
Parents are usually more careful to bestow knowledge on their children rather than virtue, the art of speaking well rather than doing well; but their manners should be of the greatest concern.
There is an effective strategy open to architects. Whereas doctors deal with the interior organisms of man, architects deal with the exterior organisms of man. Architects might join with one another to carry on their work in laboratories as do doctor...
Architects, if they are really to be comprehensive, must assume the enormous task of thinking in terms always disciplined to the scale of the total world pattern of needs, its resource flows, its recirculatory and regenerative processes.
It is new design by architects versus world revolution by political leadership.
The self-commissioned architect is the obviously exclusive potential - for as at present used, or designed, the world's resources are serving only forty-four per cent of humanity.
A new, self-employed architect scientist is the one in all the world who may accelerate realization of a high-standard survival for all, as now completely practical within the scope of available technology.
Pollution is nothing but resources we're not harvesting. We allow them to disperse because we've been ignorant of their value.
I am not optimistic or pessimistic. I feel that optimism and pessimism are very unbalanced. I am a very hard engineer. I am a mechanic. I am a sailor. I am an air pilot. I don't tell people I can get you across the ocean with my ship unless I know wh...
I'm not a genius. I'm just a tremendous bundle of experience.
Everyone is born a genius, but the process of living de-geniuses them.
Don't fight forces, use them.
Those who play with the devil's toys will be brought by degrees to wield his sword.
Tombs are the clothes of the dead and a grave is a plain suit; while an expensive monument is one with embroidery.