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"A good engineer thinks in reverse and asks himself about the stylistic consequences of the components and systems he proposes."
Consequence
"You'd never think of taking a cab if you had to walk a mile down Chicago's Michigan Avenue. But in a bad city you take a cab just to go around the corner."
Chicago
"We want our buildings to work like a machine that will create a pleasurable environment."
Work
"In Europe, architects consider themselves artists. They think they're special when they win a competition."
Artist
"You don't know what the Chinese expect in the way of beauty. The presentation is just a farce. You come into a room filled with 50 people and they don't talk to you. There's very little interaction."
Beauty
"Chinese buildings are like American buildings, with big footprints. People don't care about daylight or fresh air."
People
"I wanted to improve the suburban office building; to create a great urban space in a suburban environment with all that implies about interaction, collaboration and creativity."
Creativity
"Creativity has more to do with the elimination of the inessential than with inventing something new."
Creativity
"Most architects say: I want to use this type of glass, even if it's too reflective or doesn't let enough light in. However, the use of a certain type of glass might change the comfort level."
Change
"A building is hard to judge. It takes many years to find out whether it works. It's not as simple as asking the people in the office whether they like it."
People
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"Often people display a curious respect for a man drunk, rather like the respect of simple races for the insane... There is something awe-inspiring in one who has lost all inhibitions."
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Personal Development
"The last resort of kings, the cannonball. The last resort of the people, the paving stone."
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Personal Development
"It is not true that people are naturally equal for no two people can be together for even a half an hour without one acquiring an evident superiority over the other."
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Personal Development
"There are bad people who would be less dangerous if they were quite devoid of goodness."
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Personal Development
"Whatever good things people say of us, they tell us nothing new."
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Personal Development
"I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal."
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Personal Development
"There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating - people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing."
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Personal Development
"Stephen King in many respects is a wonderful writer. He has made a contribution. People in the future will be able to pick up Stephen King's books and learn a lot about who we were by reading those books."
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Personal Development
"People are lucky and unlucky not according to what they get absolutely, but according to the ratio between what they get and what they have been led to expect."
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Personal Development
"Deeply earnest and thoughtful people stand on shaky footing with the public."
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Personal Development
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