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" As a general rule, when a new industry takes root, and the first products emerge in a wave, almost always the architecture of the product will be proprietary and interdependent in character. "

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" We were kind of arrogant when we started and became really humbled as we were doing architecture. It's really hard to work with budgets and deadlines and all of these collaborators and all of these voices and special interests. "

" I think architecture, to be really intense and fulfilling, doesn't have to be large. "

" I strive for an architecture from which nothing can be taken away. "

" The show is called 'The Office,' and while it focuses on the people, the architecture of the space is very important. "

" In fact, it will be very easy to climb the building because of its shape and architecture. "

" Most marketers think there's a concept called a product life cycle. Once you realize that the world is organized by jobs that need to be done, you understand that product life cycles don't exist. "

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" All architecture is shelter, all great architecture is the design of space that contains, cuddles, exalts, or stimulates the persons in that space. "

" My wife comes most of the times I teach and stands on the front row to help me. She's been wonderfully supportive. "

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" It is not the beauty of a building you should look at; its the construction of the foundation that will stand the test of time. "

" I like things that are kind of eclectic, when one thing doesn't go with another. That's why I love Rome. The town itself is that way. It's where Fascist architecture meets classic Renaissance, where the ancient bangs up against the contemporary. It has a touch of everything. That's my style, and that's what my work is about. "

" We are called to be architects of the future, not its victims. "

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" I think in America there's this free flow between fashion, art, architecture, music and design. In Europe, it's more segregated between those different disciplines, I think. "

" Architecture was always the plan. I always figured I'd just do theater on the side. "

" The 'International Style of Modernism' came with the advent of building services. In the end, the architecture became like a container space, essentially like a boring box with a basement full of machinery to make it inhabitable. As a result, buildings literally started to look identical all over the planet. "

" I am a failed architect, if I'm honest. I got a degree in art history and was about to get another degree, in architecture, but realized I would be terrible at building things because I've got really bad spatial awareness. "

" I promise my students that if they take the time to figure out their life purpose, they'll look back on it as the most important thing they discovered while at school. If they don't figure it out, they will just sail off without a rudder and get buffeted in the very rough seas of life. "

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" It is not with architecture that one can disseminate any political ideology. "

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