People say, 'You look to be in great shape for your age,' and I guess I am.
Industrialization based on machinery, already referred to as a characteristic of our age, is but one aspect of the revolution that is being wrought by technology.
As technology advances, it reverses the characteristics of every situation again and again. The age of automation is going to be the age of 'do it yourself.'
I see architecture not as Gropius did, as a moral venture, as truth, but as invention, in the same way that poetry or music or painting is invention.
I truly believe that the great heroes that create the history of architecture are people who take risks and write to tell about it.
I would say that to put architecture in the chain of history, to be able to interpret and understand why we are where we are, is quite crucial.
I believe the target of anything in life should be to do it so well that it becomes an art.
You should carefully study the Art of Reasoning, as it is what most people are very deficient in, and I know few things more disagreeable than to argue, or even converse with a man who has no idea of inductive and deductive philosophy.
So many people die with their dreams in their hands.
Alles, was der Mensch tut, unvollkommen ist. Aber wer will sich schon seine Unvollkommenheit eingestehen?
Computers are like Old Testament gods; lots of rules and no mercy.
What an idiot I'd been. What a spoilt brat. What a bloody fool.
Parents have become so convinced that educators know what is best for their children that they forget that they themselves are really the experts.
You never want to think the best things are in the past. You want to get yourself to believe that the best things are going to be in the future.
In the mid-'60s in Berkeley, the theory of measure spaces of economic agents became one of my main interests.
I think I'll give it up, the fantasy is over, I wanted to play Spiderman, Peter Parker.
If the private sectors are about markets and the public sectors are about governments, then the plural sector is about communities.
The uncontrolled increase of the euro rate vis-a-vis the dollar threatens employment growth in the euro area.
Disciplined governments do not engage in the economic equivalent of binge eating followed by crash dieting.
The first thing I learned was the theme from Peter Gunn.
When you are a young person, the world is yours. You can do the impossible.
