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" On inspection, Gaudi's architecture isn't whimsical at all. "

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" The First Amendment only says 'Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion.' It can disrespect all it wants. "

" Predicting innovation is something of a self-canceling exercise: the most probable innovations are probably the least innovative. "

" I look around my house, and everything except the kids and dogs was made in China. And I'm not sure about the kids. They have brown eyes and small noses. "

" There is a lot of bad architecture. What we need more is to look at how our landscape should look in the next decades. "

" By the end of the 1950s, American cars were so reliable that their reliability went without saying even in car ads. Thousands of them bear testimony to this today, still running on the roads of Cuba though fueled with nationalized Venezuelan gasoline and maintained with spit and haywire. "

" Architecture is not an inspirational business, it's a rational procedure to do sensible and hopefully beautiful things; that's all. "

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

" Form follows profit is the aesthetic principle of our times. "

" In a way, architecture is about communication. That's an aspect of the discipline that is somewhat lacking, and there's definitely room for more progression into that area. I suppose that gives me a bit of a different edge. I'm also very, very used to doing a lot of exhaustive research and finding interesting information from different sources. "

" Blockchain technology isn't just a more efficient way to settle securities. It will fundamentally change market structures, and maybe even the architecture of the Internet itself. "

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" Catchphrases flourish in contemporary American English. "

" Opinions of language are as interesting as opinions of arithmetic. "

" You can learn all about the human condition from covering the crime beat in a big city - you don't need to go to Beirut for that - but a foreign correspondent begins to understand poverty from a different perspective. "

" I have a background in technology, design, architecture, arts and sciences. I see myself as a multi-dimensional person. "

" 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. "

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" The thing people forget is that the entire world - or, at least, Europe, U.S., transatlantic, Russia, Soviet Union - that security architecture has been in place since 1945 and has been refined. Already, the U.N. charter that everyone signed is that you can't change borders through use of force or even threat of use of force. "

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" Space has always been confusing to politics. "

" I was interested in theatre, and the only experience that I had in high school was as an actor. But when I got in Conservatoire, my teachers would give me a lot of flack because I wasn't rehearsing my lines; I'd be doing stage management. I was interested in sound. I was interested in architecture. I was interested in every aspect of theatre. "

" Guns are the ultimate bulwark against government misbehavior. "

" I'm a member of the 1960s generation. We didn't have any wisdom. "

" If you look at any leaf on any tree branch, it's similar to but not exactly a repetition of the previous branch. So the new science of complexity or showing how an architecture can be produced just as quickly, cheaply and efficiently by using computer production methods to get the slight variation, the self-similarity. "

" I was a rebel. I never wanted to build. We thought of architecture as intellectually bankrupt and slightly corrupt, and I was always more interested in other forms of discourse. "

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" A lasting architecture has to have roots. "

" The work of art shows people new directions and thinks of the future. The house thinks of the present. "

" Architecture, of all the arts, is the one which acts the most slowly, but the most surely, on the soul. "

" Architecture is the reaching out for the truth. "

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" Chicago's one of the rare places where architecture is more visible. "