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" I was probably the first kid in my high school to go to Yale. I applied almost as a lark. Then, when I got there, I was the dumbest person in your class. "

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" I loved school. I studied like crazy. I was a Class A nerd. "

" For the most part things never get built the way they were drawn. "

" How we are using up our home, how we are living and polluting the planet is frightening. It was evident when I was a child. It's more evident now. "

" You should be having more fun in high school, exploring things because you want to explore them and learning because you love learning-not worrying about competition. "

" Growing up, I thought I was white. It didn't occur to me I was Asian-American until I was studying abroad in Denmark and there was a little bit of prejudice. "

" I probably have fundamentally antisocial tendencies. I never took one extracurricular activity. I just failed utterly at that level. Part of me still rebels against that. "

" To fly we have to have resistance. "

" Warmth isn't what minimalists are thought to have. "

" Nothing is ever guaranteed, and all that came before doesn't predicate what you might do next. "

" My goal is to strip things down so that you need just the right amount of words or shape to convey what you need to convey. I like editing. I like it very tight. "

" My parents are both college professors, and it made me want to question authority, standards and traditions. "

" In art or architecture your project is only done when you say it's done. If you want to rip it apart at the eleventh hour and start all over again, you never finish. I was one of those crazy creatures. "

" Our parents decided not to teach us Chinese. It was an era when they felt we would be better off if we didn't have that complication. "

" To me, the American Dream is being able to follow your own personal calling. To be able to do what you want to do is incredible freedom. "

" I went through withdrawal when I got out of graduate school. It's what you learn, what you think. That's all that counts. "

" I probably spent the first 20 years of my life wanting to be as American as possible. Through my 20s, and into my 30s, I began to become aware of how so much of my art and architecture has a decidedly Eastern character. "

" I loved logic, math, computer programming. I loved systems and logic approaches. And so I just figured architecture is this perfect combination. "

" Some of your teachers are actually closer in age to you than you think. "

" Even though I build buildings and I pursue my architecture, I pursue it as an artist. I deliberately keep a tiny studio. I don't want to be an architectural firm. I want to remain an artist. "

" The only thing that mattered was what you were to do in life, and it wasn't about money. It was about teaching, or learning. "

" I started studying what the nature of a monument is and what a monument should be. And for the World War III memorial I designed a futile, almost terrifying passage that ends nowhere. "

" You have to let the viewers come away with their own conclusions. If you dictate what they should think, you've lost it. "

" We were unusually brought up; there was no gender differentiation. I was never thought of as any less than my brother. "

" The definition of a modern approach to war is the acknowledgement of individual lives lost. "

" My grandfather, on my father's side, helped to draft one of the first constitutions of China. He was a fairly well-known scholar. "

" You couldn't put me in a social group setting. I'm probably a terrible anarchist deep down. "

" I had very few friends. We always ate dinner with our parents. We didn't want to go out. American adolescence was a lot wilder than I would have felt comfortable with. "

" If we can't face death, we'll never overcome it. You have to look it straight in the eye. Then you can turn around and walk back out into the light. "

" All my work is much more peaceful than I am. "