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" As the OLPC laptop was getting ready to go into mass production in 2007, many executives approached me wanting the screen that I invented, and the laptop architecture that I co-invented, for their new laptops, cell phones, and other devices. "

Mary Lou Jepsen

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Architecture

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" Princeton University's campus environment presents unique challenges and opportunities for architecture to act as a social condenser. "

" In my early 30s, for a few months, I altered my body chemistry and hormones so that I was closer to a man in his early 20s. I was blown away by how dramatically my thoughts changed. "

" Whatever good things we build end up building us. "

" It's exciting to be able to be part of the block and tackle of building a company from a smaller base. "

" The overall experience Skype provided was superior to other folks because of the underlying architecture and the ability to provide a superior experience. "

" I believe that architecture is fundamentally a public space where people can gather and communicate, think about the history, think about the lives of human beings, or the world. "

" I like to play with architecture! It's my favorite game. "

" Every problem is super-interesting and has its own nuances, and you solve it today, but you try to solve it with an architecture. You build a machine to solve the problems that are like it later. And then you move on to the next. "

Travis Kalanick

" In any architecture, there is an equity between the pragmatic function and the symbolic function. "

" To provide meaningful architecture is not to parody history but to articulate it. "

" Opera should be a place for art forms to meet. I've worked a lot with Peter Gabriel; his music isn't operatic, but he creates big, popular gatherings to which architecture, dance, and music are all invited. "

" To me, architecture is an art, naturally, and it isn't architecture unless it's alive. Alive is what art is. If it's not alive, it's dead, and it's not art. "

" Architecture starts when you carefully put two bricks together. There it begins. "

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

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" Grenfell, the building set on fire with the help of its own face, is a scene of a complex injustice: one that is moral, economic, political, and aesthetic. Not only was the cladding unsafe, it was ugly; not only was it ugly, it was untrue both to the architecture of the building it covered and untrue to its responsibility to human safety. "

" A pool at the edge of the ocean is the simplest geometry, yet you feel connected to the sea. In a forest with the mountains in the background, you also feel the connection to nature, yet it's a very complex geometry. I think architecture is about controlling these feelings. "

" All architecture is great architecture after sunset; perhaps architecture is really a nocturnal art, like the art of fireworks. "

Gilbert K. Chesterton

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" The American attitude towards efficiency and execution should always underlie architecture. "

" I feel in love with holography, which is that you don't have to wear anything or carry anything. It is augmented reality, if you will. "

" What has happened to architecture since the second world war that the only passers-by who can contemplate it without pain are those equipped with a white stick and a dog? "

" Make big plans; aim high in hope and work, remembering that a noble, logical diagram once recorded will not die, but long after we are gone be a living thing, asserting itself with ever-growing insistence. "

" I think New Orleans is such a beautiful city. It looks like a fairytale when you walk through the French Quarter or the Garden District. There is such a lush sense of color, style, architecture - and the people themselves. "

" What is now called 'green architecture' is an opportunistic caricature of a much deeper consideration of the issues related to sustainability that architecture has been engaged with for many years. It was one of the first professions that was deeply concerned with these issues and that had an intellectual response to them. "

" I don't think architecture should be considered as an art form in the first instance. Whenever I say that, it makes people really angry. But this is a very political profession in the Grecian sense. I believe there have to be reasons for every building, and that the ideas should not be self-referential. "

" Architecture is restricted to such a limited vocabulary. A building is either a high-rise or a perimeter block or a town house. "

" The substance of fictional architecture is not bricks and mortar but evanescent consciousness. "

" Those who look for the laws of Nature as a support for their new works collaborate with the creator. "

" I'm not an interior decorator; I'm a designer, and that includes the architecture. The package must be strong and controlled, the rooms aligned, and the windows positioned to make sense with the furniture. Fluff it up, and you've got big trouble. "

" I've always thought that design can have equal importance to the idea of internal architecture. Professionally, things can be very dogmatic - you do the architecture, someone else does the interiors, someone else does the furniture, the fabric, etc. But I think design is all-encompassing. "

" I don't build in order to have clients. I have clients in order to build. "